IBOOK   FOR    READERS, 


REGULATIONS 


30ND     EDITION,     JULY,     1873. 


BOSTON: 
'"ELL  &  CUUllCHILL,  CITY  PRINTERS, 
^2  Washington  Street. 

18  7  3. 


HANDBOOK   FOR    READERS, 

WITH 

REGULATIONS. 


SECOND     EDITION,     JULY,     1873. 


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BOSTON: 

ROCKWELL  &  CHURCHILL,  CITY  PRINTERS, 

lj?2  Washington  Street. 

1873. 


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HANDBOOK  FOE  EEADEES. 


^  REGULATIONS. 

Adopted  Feb.  2Ath,  1869. 

Amended  June  14th,  1870,  aiid  May  2'Ith,  1873. 

Note.  —  The  words  Library  and  Rfiading  Room  refer 
equally  to  the  Branches  and  to  the  Central  Library,  un- 
less a  special  qualification  is  given. 

DAYS,   HOURS,   ETC. 

Article  1.  The  Library  shall  be  open  on 
all  secular  days  throughout  the  year,  except 
the  five  legal  holidays ;  namely,  Washing- 
ton's Birthday,  Fast  Day,  Independence  Day, 
Thanksgiving  Day,  and  Christmas  Day,  and 
such  other  days  as  the  Trustees  may  direct 
for  the  closing  of  the  whole  or  any  part  of 
the  Library,  —  provided  always,  that  the 
President    may  direct    the  Library  to    be 


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)i  REGULATIONS. 

closed  for  a  part  or  the  whole  of  any  one 
day,  reporting  the  fact  and  his  reasoi;s  for 
it  in  writing  to  the  Trustees  at  their  next 
meeting. 

Art.  2.  The  Beading  Boom  for  Periodicals 
shall  be  kept  open  from  nine  o'clock  in  the 
morning  until  ten  in  the  evening. 

^o^e.— The  hour  for  closing  the  Branch  Rtading 
Rooms  is  fixed  in  accordance  with  local  demand. 

On  Sundays  all  the  Reading  Rooms  are  open  from 
two  to  nine  o'clock,  P.  M. 

Art.  3.  The  Lower  Hall  of  the  Library 
shall  be  kept  open  for  the  delivery  of  books 
[i.  e.  for  home  use]  from  nine  o'clock  in  the 
morning  until  nine  o'clock  in  the  evening ; 
for  the  use  of  books  within  the  building 
from  nine  o'clock  in  the  morning  to  ten  in 
the  evening. 

I^ote.  —  The  hours  for  the  Branches  are  the  same  as  for 
the  Lower  Hall,  except  that  the  use  of  books  in  the 
building  ceases  with  the  closing  of  their  respective 
Reading  Rooms.  Books  are  received  in  the  Lower  Hall 
at  8.80,  but  not  delivered  till  9  o'clock,  A.M. 


REGULATIONS.  3 

Art.  4.  The  Bates  Hall  shall  be  kept  open 
from  nine  o'clock  A.  M.  until  six  o'clock 
P.  M.,  from  October  to  March,  inclusive, 
and  until  seven  o'clock  during  the  rest 
of  the  year;  and  the  books  belonging  to 
that  portion  of  the  Library  must  in  all 
cases  be  applied  for  and  returned  within 
those  hours  in  the  Bates  Hall,  except  that 
any  person  who  wishes  for  a  book  from  the 
Bates  Hall,  to  consult  in  the  Reading  Room 
for  Periodicals,  in  the  evening,  can  procure 
such  book  (unless  it  be  one  restricted  to  that 
Hall)  on  leaving  a  written  request  for  the 
same  with  the  attendant  in  either  Hall  dur- 
ing the  same  day.  No  book,  so  received, 
shall,  for  any  reason  whatever,  be  removed 
from  the  building  by  the  person  receiving 
it. 

^o^e.  — Bates  Hall  books  will  be  delivered  at  the 
Branches,  if  the  applicant's  card  and  slip,  properly  filled 
in,  are  left  at  a  Branch.  Bates  Hall  Catalogues  (».  e. 
those  in  volumes)  are  kept  at  the  Branches.  Boxes  pass 
to  and  from  the  Central  Library  daily. 


4  REGULATIONS. 

PERIODICAL  READING  ROOMS. 

Art.  5.  All  persons  above  the  age  of 
fourteen  years,  of  respectable  chara(;ter,  and 
of  such  orderly  conduct  and  condition  as 
not  to  interfere  with  the  occupations  and 
comfort  of  others,  shall  have  free  access  to 
the  Reading  Room  for  Periodicals,  during 
all  the  regular  hours. 

Note.  —  The  Central  Reading  Room  for  Periodicals  is 
provided  with  seats  for  one  hundred  readers.  It  has  by 
far  the  best  collection  of  American  and  Foreign  Periodi- 
cals in  the  country,  and  is  amply  furnished  with  Dic- 
tionaries, Gazetteers,  Cyclopaedias,  and  other  books  of 
reference,  which  are  free  of  access  to  all.  The  Reading 
Rooms  of  the  Branches  are  on  a -less  extended  scale. 
When  a  Periodical  is  wanted,  its  name  or  box-number, 
together  with  the  name  and  residence  of  the  borrower, 
must  be  written  on  a  slip  of  paper,  —  furnished  for  that 
purpose  at  the  Desk,  —  and  left  with  the  attendant.  [See 
Article  X.]  Every  Periodical,  received  from  the 
attendant,  must  be  returned  before  the  borrower 
leaves  the  Reading  Room;  and  it  must  not  be  carried, 
without  special  permission  of  some  officer  of  the 
Library,  into  any  other  part  of  the  building.  Every 
Periodical,  when  returned,  will  bo  carefully  examined 
by  the  attendant,  who  is  required  to  report  immediately 


REGULATIONS.  O 

any  injury  which  it  m^  have  suffered.  Incomplete 
volumes  of  Periodicals  are  not  allowed  to  be  taken  from 
the  building,  unless  for  urgent  reasons,  stated  in  writing 
to  the  Trustees,  and  upon  their  permission  being 
granted.  Bound  volumes  of  Periodicals  in  the  Bates  Hall 
do  not  circulate  except  by  permission  of  the  Superin- 
tendent or  his  representative.  The  books  of  reference  at 
the  Desk  are  to  be  consulted  there,  and  returned  to 
their  proper  places.  It  is  not  allowable  to  accumulate 
them  on  the  tables.  AH  conversation,  all  avoidable 
noise,  and  unbecoming  conduct  of  every  kind,  are 
strictly  prohibited.  The  attendant  is  required  to  check 
every  irregularity  of  the  kind,  •  and,  if  necessary,  to 
raake  report  thereof.  The  attendant  is  not  allowed  to 
converse  in  this  Room,  except  on  Library  businees- 


home;  use  of  books. 

Art.  6f  The  following|persons,  when  of 
orderly  conduct  and  condition,  shall  be  en- 
titled to  borrow  books  from  the  Library /or 
home  use,  upon  signing  a  promise  to  obey 
its  Regulations. 

First.  All  inhabitants  of  Boston  above  the 
age  of  sixteen  years;  all  clergymen  and 
teachers  having  regular  \i.  e.  professional] 


6  REGULATIONS. 

occupation  in  the  city ;  all  members  of  the 
Girls'  High  and  Normal  Schools,  all  Medal 
Scholars,  and  such  others  as  shall  have  re- 
ceived Lawrence  Prizes,  or  certificates  of 
graduation,  if  resident  in  the  city,  and 
though  under  sixteen  years  of  age  ;  also  the 
members  of  such  other  of  the  higher  educa- 
tional institutions  in  the  city  as  the  Trustees 
may  from  time  to  time  permit.  All  such 
persons  must  have  signed  the  application 
card,  and  given  satisfactory  reference  to 
one  citizen. 

Note.  —  This  registration  takes  place  in  the  Lower 
Hall  and  at  the  Branches;  and  a  card  issued  at  either 
place  is  good  for  the  Bates  Hall,  and  at  tlf%  same  time 
for  either  the  Lower  Hall  or  one  of  the  Branches.  Regis- 
tration in  more  than  one  of  these  places  is  forbidden. 
The  cards  issued  at  the  Central  Library  are  yellow  ;  at 
the  East  Boston  Branch,  pink;  at  the  South  Boston 
Branch,  green;  and  at  the  Roxbury  Branch,  white;  to 
change  the  color  of  a  card  all  books  must  first  be  re- 
turned at  the  Libraiy  from  which  they  were  taken ;  and 
the  old  card  must  be  properly  stamped,  showing  that 
the  return  has  been  made. 


REGULATIONS.  7 

Second.  Any  other  inhabitant  of  Boston 
depositing  such  sum  for  the  volume  asked 
for,  if  permitted  to  circulate  (or  for  the  set 
to  which  it  may  belong),  as  the  Super- 
intendent may  require,  for  which  a  receipt 
will  be  given ;  which  sum  shall  be  repaid 
whenever  the  books  and  receipt  are  re- 
turned/ after  any  fines  incurred  for  injury 
to  the  book  or  its  improper  detention  have 
been  deducted. 

Xote.  —Non-residents  (when  specially  permitted,  in 
consideration  of  the  advancement  of  the  public  interests) 
may  take  books  for  home  use,  in  accordance  with  the 
conditions  imposed  in  each  case  by  the  Trustees.  "When 
the  ordinary  privileges  are  granted,  a  "  Non-resident's 
card"  is  given;  if  enlarged  privileges  are  allowed,  a 
'*  Special  Privilege  card"  <blue)  is  given.  Non-resident 
tax -payers  of  Boston  are  denied  the  privilege  of  taking 
books  from  the  building  by  a  vote  of  the  City  Council  in 
1862. 

Art.  7.  Any  person  visiting  the  Library 
for  the  purpose  of  literary  or  scientific  in- 
vestigations, may  temporarily  receive  the 
benefit  of  the  Readinor  Rooms,  and  the  use 


8  REGULATIONS. 

of  the  books  within  the  Library  building. 
Any  person  wishing  to  consult  the  Patent 
Specifications  shall  be  permitted  to  do  so  at 
all  reasonable  hours,  in  the  presence  of  an 
attendant. 

Note.  —  See  under  the  head  of  Catalogues. 

Art.  8.  All  books  belonging  to  the  Li- 
brary may,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Superin- 
tendent, be  used  in  the  building,  and  in 
such  part  of  it  as  he  may  designate,  —  a 
discretion  which  he  is  required  by  the  Trus- 
tees to  exercise,  especially  in  the  case  of 
minors,  and  in  regard  to  books  of  great 
value  or  rarity ;  and  all  such  examinations 
of  costly  or  rare  works  must  be  made,  if 
the  Superintendent  requires  it,  in  the  pres- 
ence, and  with  the  assistance,  of  an  attend- 
ant connected  with  the  Library. 

Note.  —  The  Librarians  of  the  Branches  exercise  this 
discretion  as  far  as  applicable. 

Art.  9.  Encyclopsedias,  Dictionaries,  and 


REGULATIONS.  9 

Other  books  needed  for  reference  in  the 
Library  building ;  books  not  easily  to  be  re- 
placed, in  consequence  of  their  rarity  or 
value ;  books  expressly  given  for  reference 
only ;  the  books  deemed  by  the  Trustees  to 
be  unsuitedfor  general  circulation  ;  also  un- 
bound periodicals,  —  shall  be  used  only  in 
the  building ;  provided,  nevertheless,  that, 
in  order  to  allow  the  widest  practicable  use 
of  the  Library  consistent  with  its  greatest 
efficiency,  a  person  desiring  to  borrow  any 
book  or  periodical  whatever  (except  such 
books  as  may  have  been  given  on  condition 
that  they  should  not  be  taken  from  the  Li- 
brary), and  stating  the  reasons  for  it  in 
writing  to  the  Trustees,  shall,  if  the  reasons 
are  deemed  sufficient,  be  permitted  to  bor- 
row it  on  proper  conditions. 

Kote.  —  The  following  vote  was  passed  by  the  Trustees, 
Dec.  6th,  1853,  and  remains  in  force: —  "Ordered,  that 
books  of  a  purely  medical  character  shall  be  circulated 
only  to  persons  professionally  studying  or  practicing  the 
healing  art." 


10  REGULATIONS. 

METHOD  OF  DRAWING  BOOKS  OUT. 

Art.  10.  Every  person  allowed  the  privi- 
lege of  taking  books  from  the  Library  will 
be  furnished  with  a  card  setting  forth  his 
right,  and  bearing  a  record  of  his  residence 
as  given  in  his  application.  If  this  residence 
is  changed,  immediate  notice  must  be  given 
at  the  Library,  and  neglect  to  do  so  will  sub- 
ject the  card-holder  to  risk  of  forfeiture  of 
his  card. 

27dte.  —  Bee  note  under  Article  6. 

In  either  Hallf  slips  for  procuring  books 
will  be  furnished  the  applicants,  as  they  may 
require  them.  The  applicant  will  write  in 
the  ruled  spaces  on  these  slips  the  shelf-num- 
bers of  the  books  desired,  and  copy  plainly 
in  the  prescribed  places  on  the  slip  the  name 
and  residence  borne  on  the  card  in  use  ;  and 
both  the  card  and  the  slip  will  then  be  handed 
to  the  attendant.  If  the  card  is  not  present- 
ed on  returning  or  renewing  a  book,  it  may 


REGULATIONS.      •  11 

be  detained  in  the  Library  at  least  one  day, 
when  next  used  in  asking  for  a  book.  If  a 
card  be  lost,  it  cannot  be  replaced  till  after 
fifteen  days'  notice  of  the  loss  has  been 
given  at  the  Library,  which  interval  is  nec- 
essary to  stop  its  use  in  irresponsible 
hands. 

In  the  Bates  Eall^  no  person  can  procure 
a  book  by  the  use  of  another  person's  card 
(that  person  not  being  of  his  household  or 
in  his  service) ,  without  a  special  order  from 
the  owner  of  the  card. 

In  the  Reading  Room  for  Periodicals, 
whenever  a  periodical  is  taken  from  the 
Desk,  its  number,  together  with  the  name 
and  residence  of  the  borrower,  must  be 
written  on  a  slip  of  paper  (to  be  furnished 
for  the  purpose) ,  and  left  with  the  attend- 
ant. 

RESTRICTED  BOOKS,  ETC. 

Art.  11.  No  person  shall  have,  in  home 
use,    more   than   one  volume,  from   each 


12  .      REGULATIONS. 

Hall,  at  a  time,  or  more  than  two  volumes 
at  a  time  from  both;  and  no  book  shall 
be  retained  by  the  person  borrowing  it  more 
than  fourteen  days,  at  or  before  the  end  of 
which  time  it  may  be  renewed,  but  after 
fourteen  days  it  cannot  be  renewed. 

Note.  — Applicable  to  the  Branches  with  the  qualifi- 
cation given  in  note  to  Article  6. 

Where  one  or  more  cards  have  been  is- 
sued to  the  same  household,  it  is  not  per- 
mitted to  transfer  a  book  to  another  of  that 
household,  for  the  purpose  of  retaining  a 
book  beyond  the  period  of  one  month  in 
their  joint  use;  and  at  the  end  of  this 
month,  the  book  must  remain  in  the  Library 
one  week  before  it  can  be  drawn  again  by 
any  member  of  said  household. 

Books  marked  with  one  star  can  circulate 
only  by  the  written  permission  of  the  Su- 
perintendent. Those  marked  with  two  stars 
have  been  given  and  accepted  upon  con- 
dition that  they  should  be  used  only  in  the 


REGULATIONS.  13 

Library,  and  can  under  no  circumstances  be 
allowed  to  leave  the  building.  Those  bearing 
three  stars  shall  not  be  used  either  within  or 
without  the  building  unless  by  the  written  per- 
mission of  the  President,  or  of  two  members 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees.     [See  Article  9.] 

i^o^e.— stars  are  prefixed  in  the  Catalogue  [in  vol- 
umes] to  the  title  only  which  has  the  imprint,  and  not  to 
cross-references. 

Books  which  have  one  star  attached  to  them  are  of 
several  kinds.  1.  Those  not  easily  replaced.  2.  Those 
belonging  to  long  sets,  which  if  broken,  lose  much  of  their 
value,  and  which  it  is  often  difficult  to  complete  again. 
3.  Those  which  from  their  n  ature  are  books  of  refer- 
ence, and  fitted  to  serve  a  greater  number  in  the  build- 
ing than  when  in  circulation.  4.  Those  in  the  Bates 
Hall  which  are  duplicates  of  books  in  the  Lower  Hall, 
where  they  freely  circulate,  and  where  sufficient  copies 
will  be  kept  to  meet  the  demand,  and  which  are  put  in 
the  Bates  Hall  for  purposes  of  reference  only. 

Under  circumstances  requiring  it,  judged  of  in  each 
case  both  as  regards  tKe  book  wanted  and  the  applicant's 
needs,  applications  for  taking  such  one-starred  books 
will  be  granted,  if  filled  out  in  the  blanks  provided. 

All  these  books  can  be  used  in  the  various  halls  without 
such  application,  and  readers  will  bear  in  mind  that  of- 


14  REGULATIONS. 

tentimes  they  had  better  subject  themselve$  to  the  incon  • 
venience  of  consulting  them  in  the  building  (and  Bates 
Hall  books  will  be  retained  for  evening  use  in  the  Lower 
Hall,  if  word  is  given  at  the  Desk)  than  that  the  complete 
eflaciency  of  the  Library  should  be  hazarded  by  taking 
them  away.  The  Librarians  of  the  Branches  will  act 
for  the  Superintendent  in  regard  to  books  with  one  star 
In  the  Branches. 

FINES. 

Art.  12.  To  protect  the  Library  against 
loss,  and  to  secure  to  all  a  just  and  equita- 
ble share  in  its  benefits,  any  person  detain- 
ing a  volume  longer  than  the  regulations 
permit,  shall  be  fined  two  cents  for  each  day 
of  detention ;  and  no  remission  of  any  fine 
shall  be  made  except  by  the  Superintendent. 

27^ote.  —  The  day  on  which  a  book  is  taken  out  is  not 
counted  in  reckoning  the  time,  under  the  rules,  during 
which  a  book  may  be  detained ;  but  Sundays  are  always 
counted,  and  holidays,  and  other  days  on  which  the 
Library  may  be  closed,  are  also  reckoned,  except  when 
Buch  holiday,  etc.,  happens  to  be  one  on  which  the 
count  ends,  and  then  the  count  shall  end  at  the  close  of 
the  first  day  thereafter  on  which  the  Library  may  be  open. 

EXAMPI.E.    A  book  Ib  taken  out  ou  Monday,  Feb.  Ist. 


REGULATIONS.  15 


If  returned  on  Monday,  Feb.  16th,  no  fine  is  incurred;  if 
not  returned  on  that  day,  a  mail-notice  is  sent  on  the 
16th,  and  a  fine  of  two  cents  is  incurred  for  that  day, 
and  every  day  afterwards  until  the  book  is  returned.  If 
for  any  reason  the  Library  happens  to  be  closed  on  the 
15th,  the  borrower  may  have  the  16th,  or  the  first  day 
subsequent  on  which  the  Library  maybe  open,  to  return 
the  book ;  and  the  mail-notice  will  not  be  sent  till  the 
17th,  or  second  open  day,  and  on  this  day  the  fine  begins 
to  be  incurred. 

If  the  book  is  not  returned  by  Monday,  the  22d,  — 
being  one  week  after  the  sending  of  the  mail  notice, — 
a  messenger  notice  is  sent  on  the  23d,  and  a  penalty  of 
twenty  cents  is  demanded,  whether  the  book  is  returned 
early  or  late  on  that  day,  or  any  subsequent  day ;  in  ad- 
dition to  the  two  cents  per  day  accruing  constantly  from 
the  date  of  the  mail-notice. 

If  the  Library  is  closed  on  the  22d,  the  borrower  has 
the  23d,  or  the  first  open  day  thereafter,  to  return  the 
book,  and  the  messenger  notice  is  sent  and  the  penalty 
incurred  on  the  second  open  day. 

If  th«  mail-notice  is  not  sent  till  the  17th,  or  some  sub- 
sequent day,  the  messenger  notice  will  not  be  sent  till 
the  8th  day  thereafter. 

In  the  Lower  Hall  the  fine  must  be  paid  at  the  Clerk's 
Desk  and  the  card  stamped  before  books  will  be  de- 
livered upon  it.  In  the  Bates  Hall  and  at  the  Branches 
the  fine  is  to  be  paid  at  the  Delivery  Desk;  and  the 
Librarians  of  the  Branches  will  report  to  the  Superin- 
tendent cases  for  remission  of  fines. 


16  REGULATIONS. 

Art.  13.  Any  book  detained  one  week 
beyond  the  time  limited  by  these  regula- 
tions shall  be  sent  for,  and  the  additional 
penalty  of  twenty  cents  shall  be  collected, 
from  every  delinquent,  after  the  detention 
of  a  book  more  than  three  weeks,  and  after 
due  notice  thereof  has  been  given  ;  and  no 
book  shall  be  lent  to  any  person  who  has 
fines  and  penalties  remaining  unsettled  be- 
yond such  time  as  may  be  publicly  fixed. 

BOOKS  NOT  TO   BE  LENT. 

Art.  14.  No  person  who  has  borrowed  a 
book  from  the  Library  shall  lend  it  to  any 
one  not  a  member  of  the  same  household. 

INJURIES  to  books. 

Art.  15.  All  injuries  to  books  beyond  a 
reasonable  wear,  and  all  losses,  shall  be 
made  good,  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Super- 
intendent, by  the  persons  liable;  every 
book  detained  above  three  months  being 
held  to  be  lost. 


REGULATIONS.  17 

27dte.  — The  following  Act  was  passed  by  the  Legis- 
lature  of  Massachusetts,  February  26,  1872:  — An  Act 
for  the  Preservation  of  Books  and  other  Property  be- 
longing to  Public  Libraries. 

Be  it  enacted,  etc.,  as  folloios:  — 

Whoever  -wilfully  and  maliciously  or  wantonly  and 
without  cause  writes  upon,  injures,  defaces,  tears  or 
destroys  any  book,  plate,  picture,  engraving,  or  statue, 
belonging  to  any  law,  town,  city,  or  other  public  library, 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  dollars, 
nor  more  than  fifty  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  in  the 
jail  not  exceeding  six  months,  for  every  such  offence. 

Approved,  Feb.  26,  1872. 

CALLING  IN  OF  BOOKS. 

Art.  16.  All  books  must  be  returned  to 
the  Library  at  such  times  as  may  ber  re- 
quired by  the  Trustees,  under  penalty  of  a 
fine  of  one  dollar  for  each  volume  detained  ; 
but  seasonable  notice  of  the  time  of  return- 
ing them  shall  be  given  in  the  newspapers 
of  the  city. 

l^ote.  —  It  is  not  customary  to  close  the  Library  for 
any  periodical  examination,  as  that  process  goes  on  now 
without  any  intermission  of  the  circulation.  The  clos- 
ing can  only  be  extraordinary. 


18  REGULATIONS. 

BOOKS  NOT  TO  BE  TAKEN  FROM  THE 
SHELVES. 

Art.  17.  No  books  shall  be  taken  from  the 
shelves  in  any  part  of  the  Library  by  any 
person  not  employed  in  the  service  of  the 
Library  except  such  books  as  are  depos- 
ited in  the  public  rooms  for  reference. 

CONVERSATION,   ETC. 

Art.  18.  All  conversation  and  conduct 
inconsistent  with  the  quiet  and  orderly  use 
of  the  Reading  Room  for  Periodicals,  or  of 
the  Reading  Room  in  the  Bates  Hall,  are 
strictly  prohibited. 

ABUSES,   ETC. 

Art.  19.  Any  person  abusing  the  privi- 
leges of  the  Library  by  unbecoming  con- 
duct, or  by  the  violation  of  any  of  the  regu- 
lations, by  intentional  defacement  of  a  book 
by  writing  in  it,  or  in  any  other  way,  shall 
be  reported  to  the  Trustees  as  soon  as  may 


REGULATIONS.  19 

be,  and  by  them  excluded  from  the  Library 
for  a  time,  or  permanently,  according  to  the 
nature  and  degree  of  the  delinquency  or 
default ;  but,  in  case  of  any  gross  offence, 
the  Superintendent  or  his  representative 
shall  act  summarily  in  the  matter,  and  cause 
the  offender  to  be  at  once  excluded  from  the 
building,  reporting  the  case  to  the  Trustees, 
as  soon  as  possible,  in  writing,  for  their  final 
decision. 


CATALOGUES. 


Copies  of  the  various  Catalo^ies  are 
always  accessible  on  the  tables  of  the  Bates 
Hall,  at  the  Clerk's  Desk  in  the  Lower  De- 
livery Hall,  and  at  the  Branches. 

BULLETINS. 

A  fresh  printed  list  of  accessions  is  posted 
almost  daily  in  each  Library.  That  for  the 
Bates  Hall  shows  all  the  books  added  to  the 
Central  Library.  Those  for  the  Lower  Hall 
and  for  the  Branches  show  only  the  books 
added  to  those  departments.  Broadside 
sheets  of  printed  titles,  about  one  hundred 
to  a  sheet,  are  also  posted,  as  fast  as  ready, 
near  the  Catalogue  Clerk,  who  prepares  the 
cards  for  the  Card  Catalofjues. 


CATALOGUKS.  21 

Bates  Hall  books,  whose  titles  liave  not  yet 
been  printed  in  the  strips  on  the  Bulletin 
board,  are  put  in  a  glass  case  at  the  Desk, 
where  their  titles  and  shelf-nurabers  can  bo 
seen.  They  arc  removed  from  this  case  as 
fast  as  their  titles  are  printed. 

The  printed  quarterly  Bulletins  contain  a 
selection  of  all  the  more  important  acces- 
sions, with  other  matters  deemed  of  interest 
to  the  readers.  For  sale  (excepting  such  as 
are  out  of  print)  at  2  cents  each.  Books 
with  numbers  below  2110  are  in  the  Lower 
Ilall,  and  above  2110  are  in  the  Bates  Hall. 
Those  with  E.  B.  prefixed  to  the  number 
are  in  the  East  Boston  Branch  ;  with  S.  B. 
are  in  the  South  Boston  Branch  ;  with  BOX. 
are  in  the  Roxbury  Branch, 

The  Connolidated  Bulletin  (kept  at  the  Bates  Hall 
Deek)  comblncg  In  one  alphabet  the  titles  contained 
in  the  Bulletins  which  have  been  iHsued  since  October, 
1867,  and  nhows  the  more  important  books  added  to  both 
Halls  of  the  Central  Library  since  August  3lHt  of  that 
year.    It  has  no  entries  under  subjects. 


22  CATALOGUES. 

BATES  HALL. 

I.  The  Index  of  1861.  (Includes  the 
Bowditch  books  which  cannot  be  taken  from 
the  building.)  Royal  octavo,  902  pages. 
Out  of  print, 

II.  The  Supplement  of  1866.  (Includes 
the  Parker  Library.)  Royal  octavo,  718 
pages.     For  sale  at  $2.00. 

III.  The  Catalogue  of  the  Prince 
Library.  (Books  and  manuscripts  on  early 
New  England  history,  and  a  general  theo- 
logical library,  formed  by  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Prince  of  Boston  in  the  first  half  of  the  last 
century.  It  numbers  about  2,000  volumes 
as  bound.  A  history  of  the  collection  forms 
an  introduction.  The  books  cannot  be 
taken  from  the  building.)  Royal  octavo, 
leo'pages.     For  sale  at  $1.00. 

IV.  The  Catalogue  of  the  Ticknob 
Library.  (Formed  by  George  Ticknor, 
the  historian  of  Spanish  Literature,  and  by 
him  bequeathed  to  the  Library.  It  embraces 


CATALOGUES.  23 

about  4,000  volumes  in  and  relating  to  the 
Spanish  and  Portuguese  languages  and  lit- 
eratures. In  preparation.)  The  shelf-lists 
in  the  mean  time  can  be  consulted  to  ascer- 
tain its  contents  by  classifications.  A  sub- 
sidiary slip  catalogue  gives  brief  titles  under 
the  names  of  authors.  The  titles  as  fast  as 
treated  are  embodied  in  the  Public  and 
Official  Card  Catalogues,  and  also  in  a 
Special  Card  Catalogue. 

V.  PuBLLC  Card  Catalogue.  The 
printed  cards,  together  with  the  smaller 
ones  in  manuscript  in  the  same  drawers,  show 
the  books  added  to  the  Bates  Hall  since  the 
issue  of  the  Supplement  in  1866.  Those  in 
print  show  also  the  books  added  to  the  Lower 
Hall  since  October  1,  1871,  and  contain  all 
needful  cross-references,  under  subjects, 
etc. ;  the  smaller  cards  in  manuscript  do  not 
contain  such  cross-references,  but  only  main 
entries,  under  authors,  etc.  It  is  the  inten- 
tion, however,  to  print  the  titles  of  these 


24  CATALOGUES. 

Manuscript  Cards  and  embody  them  with 
the  larger  cards  with  the  necessary  cross- 
references,  as  rapidly  as  possible.  The 
titles  from  the  printed  Catalogue  of  the. 
Prince  Library  have  been  inserted  among 
the  printed  cards  in  their  proper  alphabeti- 
cal places ;  and  in  due  time  it  is  hoped  to 
embody  with  them,  in  the  same  way,  the 
printed  titles  from  the  Bates  Hall  Index  and 
Supplement,  from  Vol.  1  of  the  Bulletins, 
and  from  the  Lower  Hall  Clasg  Lists,  so  that 
the  public  shall  have  access  in  one  alphabet 
to  a  catalogue  of  all  the  Books  in  the  Cen- 
tral Library.  Until  this  is  done,  the  visitor 
will  have  to  search  in  various  printed  alpha- 
bets in  book  form,  and  in  the  manuscript 
part  as  well  as  in  the  printed  part  of  this 
card  catalogue.  The  cards  in  these  drawers 
are  on  no  pretence  to  he  taken  from  beneath  the 
wires. 

VI.  The  Official  Card    Catalogue, 
which  can  be  consulted,  in  cases  of  need, 


CATALOGUES.  25 

upon  application,  supplements  the  printed 
Indexes,  and  furnishes  full  cross-references 
to  that  part  of  the  Public  Card  Catalogue 
which  is  at  present  in  manuscript. 

J^ote.  —  A  limited  number  of  copies  of  the  Index  and 
Supplement  circulate  like  other  books. 

As  the  books  on  the  shelves  are  classed 
according  to  subjects,  the  shelf-lists  will 
frequently  afford  the  readiest  means  of 
ascertaining  the  extent  of  the  Library's  gen- 
eral collection  in  any  given  department, 
and  these  can  be  consulted  on  application.    . 

E^"  The  Lower  Hall  Class  Lists  must  al- 
ways be  examined  before  deciding  that  a 
book  does  not  belong  to  the  Library,  since 
that  department  contains  many  books  not 
strictly  popular.  These  Lists  can  be  con- 
sulted on  the  tables  of  the  Bates  Hall,  as 
well  as  in  the  Lower  Delivery  Room,  where 
they  are  for  sale. 


26  CATALOGUES. 


LOWER  HALL. 


I.  Fiction  and  Juveniles.  —  btJi  edition, 
August,  1871,  76  pages.     Price  15  cents. 

II.  Arts,  Sciences,  and  Professions. 
2d  edition,  September,  1871,  71  pages.  Price 
10  cents. 

III.  History,  Biography  aj^d  Travels. 
2d  edition,  Jul}',  1873.  (Contains  notes  to 
assist  readers.) 

IV.  French,  German,  and  Italian 
Books.  \st  edition,  September,  1869,  45 
pages.     Price  2  cents. 

V.  Poetry,  Drama,  Collections  and 
Miscellanies,  1st  edition,  July,  1870, 
128  pages.     P/ice  20  cents. 

VI.  A  Card  Catalogue,  containing  only 
the  titles  of  works  (not  anonymous)  in  the 
English  language  which  have  been  added 
to  the  Lower  Library  since  the  issue  of  the 
various  Class  Lists,  has  been  placed  at 
the  Clerk's  Desk  in  the  Distributing  Hall. 
In   the  printed   Bulletins,  such   works   are 


CATALOGUES.  27 

entered  only  under  the  names  of  their 
authors.  These  printed  entries  have  been 
cut  out  of  the  various  Bulletins,  and  in- 
serted in  alphabetical  order  in  a  book, 
which  is  in  the  custody  of  the  Clerk,  and 
which  can  be  consulted  on  application  to 
him.  This  Consolidated  Bulletin,  there- 
fore, and  the  Card  Catalogue,  taken  together, 
show  all  the  additions,  both  under  author 
and  title,  which  have  been  made  to  the 
Lower  Library  since  the  publication  of  the 
several  Class  Lists. 

OBSERVE.  Many  books  properly  be- 
longing to  the  classes  of  the  preceding  Lists 
will  be  found  in  No.  V,  because  they  form 
one  of  a  series  or  collection. 

The  old  Index  to  the  Lower  Hall  Library, 
in  a  single  alphabet,  published  in  1858,  can 
be  referred  to  for  fuller  titles  than  the  Class 
Lists  give ;  and  if  a  book  is  twelve  years 
old,  or  more,  it  can  often  be  more  easily 
found  by  means  of  this  Catalogue. 


28  CATALOGUES. 

BRANCHES. 

Finding  Lists  of  the  books  in  the  Branch 
Libraries  have  been  printed  separately,  and 
are  for  sale  at  the  Branches. 

CENTRAL    PERIODICAL    READING-ROOM. 

A  second  edition  of  a  List  of  Periodicals 
currently  received  (nearly  800  in  number, 
of  which  about  one-half  are  kept  in  the 
Reading-room),  issued  in  April,  1873,  is  for 
sale  at  5  cents. 

The  numbers  of  the  periodicals,  when 
removed  from  the  Reading-room  boxes,  are 
kept  assorted,  and  bound  by  volumes  as 
completed,  and  assigned  to  the  shelves. 
(See  Articles  2  and  5  of  the  Regulations.) 

ENGRAVINGS. 

A  List  of  the  Portraits  in  the  Tosti  En- 
gravings is  for  sale  at  5  cents. 

Bulletins  13  and  15  contain  a  list  of  that 
portion  of  the  Tosti  collection  of  engravings 
which    is    in    bound    volumes,    embracing 


CATALOGUES.  29 

nearly  5,100  prints;  and  Bulletin  21  con- 
tains a  list  of  the  framed  prints,  not  portraits, 
in  the  Bates  Hall.  A  Supplemental  List, 
May,  1873  (price  5  cents),  completes  the 
Catalogue  of  the  collection.  These  lists 
have  been  bound  in  a  separate  volume. 

Note.  —  The  Tosti  Engravings,  kept  in  volumes,  are 
shown  Mondays  and  Saturdays  in  the  Bates  Hall,  ex- 
cept during  the  dinner  hour  of  the  Curator,  who  on 
other  days  is  in  charge  of  the  Cabinet  and  Pamphlet 
Rooms. 

PAMPHLETS. 

Special  efforts  are  constantly  making  to 
increase  the  collection  of  pamphlets,  and 
appeals  are  made  to  the  friends  of  the  Li- 
brary for  gifts  of  such  publications.  They 
are  bound  and  catalogued  as  rapidly  as 
possible,  and  are  to  be  sought  for  in  the 
Catalogues  in  the  same  way  as  books. 

Those  not  yet  bound  or  catalogued  are 
kept  assorted,  and  the  Curator  of  the 
Pamphlets  can  be  consulted  concerning 
them.  Duplicates  not  needed  are  in  like 
manner  arranged  for  exchanges. 


30  CATALOGUES. 

NEWSPAPERS. 

The  Newspaper  Room  is  in  the  basement, 
but  the  collection  appears  in  the  Bates  Hall 
Catalogues,  both  under  "Periodicals"  and 
under  the  names  of  the  publications.  Cur- 
rent newspapers  ai^e  not  taken  ;  but  some  of 
the  principal  newspapers  are  added  as  the 
volumes  are  completed. 

MAPS. 

These  are  also  to  be  searched  for  in  the 
Bates  Hall  Catalogues  under  the  subject 
or  compiler. 

PATENTS. 

The  Patent  Specifications  and  Drawings 
of  the  United  States,  Great  Britain  and 
France  are  kept  in  the  Bates  Hall  under 
the  charge  of  a  Custodian,  and  can  be  ex- 
amined on  application  at  the  desk.  [See 
Article  7.]  The  American  volumes  are  re- 
ceived monthly,  but  are  about  four  months 
behind  date.    The  British  volumes  are  re- 


CATALOGUES.  31 

ceived  about  once  a  year.  For  recent 
British  patents,  *'  The  Engineer,"  a  weekly 
London  journal,  which  is  received  regularly 
in  the  Periodical  Reading  Room  of  the  Li- 
brary, should  be  consulted.  It  contains  a 
'*  Patent  Journal,  condensed  from  the  Jour- 
nal of  the  Commissioners  of  Patents,"  and 
gives  abstracts  of  specifications.  These  vol- 
umes cannot  be  taken  from  the  building.  A 
useful  book  is  **  Patent  Laws  and  practice  of 
obtaining  letters  patent  for  inventions  in 
the  United  States  and  foreign  countries, 
including  Copyright  and  Trade-mark  Laws. 
By  Prof.  Charles  Sidney  Whitman,"  Wash- 
ington, 1871.  [5667.50.]  See  also  a  list 
of  works  on  Patents  and  Patent  Laws  ap- 
pended to  Bulletin  No.  25,  a  copy  of  which 
may  be  seen  in  the  Patent  Room. 

MANUSCRIPTS. 

The  Library  is  not  yet  rich  in  such  collec- 
tions.   The  Bowditch    mathematical    mss. 


32  CATALOGUES. 

appear  in  the  index  of  the  Bates  Hall.  The 
Prince  mss.  are  analyzed  in  the  third  part 
of  the  Prince  Catalogue.  The  Ticknor 
MSS.  will  be  found  in  the  Printed  Card 
Catalogue.  These  volumes  cannot  be  taken 
from  the  building.  The  original  parole  of 
Burgoyne  and  his  army  is  one  of  the  most 
interesting  of  the  Library's  manuscripts. 

DUPLICATES. 

A  room  in  the  basement  is  devoted  to 
storing  duplicates  held  for  exchange.  They 
are  not  catalogued  but  are  arranged  by 
classes. 

THE   CATALOGUE   SYSTEM. 

The  so-called  Dictionary  System,  upon 
which  all  the  Catalogues  of  the  Boston  Pub- 
lic Library  are  made,  is  thought  to  be  more 
simple  than  any  other. 

There  are  three  things,  one  of  which  a 
person  wanting  a  book  must  know,  and 
the  Dictionary  System  guides  the  average 


CATALOGUES.  33 

reader  more  readily  than  any  other,  as  he 
always  looks  in  the  proper  alphabetical 
place  for  the  entiy  he  is  in  search  of.  These 
three  things  are  as  follows  :  — 

I.  Tlie  title.  If  this  is  not  clearly  indica- 
tive of  the  subject  of  the  work  (if  it  is,  the 
subject  should  be  looked  for  rather  than  the 
title) ,  search  for  it  under  the  first  word  not 
an  article  or  a  preposition,  or  under  the 
chief  word  of  the  title. 

II.  Tlie  author.  Find  this  in  its  proper 
alphabetical  place.  If  the  name  is  a  pseu- 
donym, there  will  be  a  reference  from  it  to 
the  real  name.  When  the  initials  of  the 
author's  names  only  appear,  the  last  initial 
is  put  first.  Look  also  under  the  names  of 
editors  of  collections.  All  editions  of  the 
Bible  and  its  parts  are  entered  under  the 
word  "Bible."  Societies,  Governments, 
Departments,  etc.,  are  considered  as  the 
authors  of  works  published  by  them;  and 
such  publications  will  generally  be  found 

2 


34  CATALOGUES. 

under  the  names  of  such  bodies.  In  the 
earlier  Catalogues  of  the  Library,  however, 
Societies,  etc.,  were  usually  entered  under 
the  names  of  the  places  where  they  are  es- 
tablished. In  the  headings  of  the  titles,  the 
names  of  authors  are  given  in  their  vernac- 
ular form.  French  surnames  preceded  by 
Le,  Lay  or  L,  are  entered  under  L ;  by  Du 
or  Bes,  under  I) ;  by  de  or  d\  under  the 
initial  letter  of  the  name  following  this  pre- 
fix. In  English  names,  the  prefix  is  treated 
as  a  component  part  of  the  surname ;  as  in 
De  Quincey,  Van  Kess.  In  all  other  lan- 
guages, surnames  are  entered  under  the 
letter  which  begins  the  name  that  follows 
the  prefix.  Compound  surnames  are,  in 
most  cases,  entered  under  the  first  part  of 
the  name.  British  noblemen  and  ecclesiasti- 
cal dignitaries  are  entered  under  their  fam- 
ily names  with  cross-references  from  their 
titular  appellations.  All  other  noblemen 
are  usually  catalogued  under  their  titles. 


CATALOGUES.  35 

Initials  inclosed  within  marks  of  paren- 
thesis stand  for  Christian  names  which  are 
not  usually  retained  by  the  persons  to  whom 
they  properly  belong ;  as  About,  E.  (F.  V.) 
In  the  headings  of  titles,  the  German  diph- 
thongs, a,  b,  U,  are  written  a  e,  o  e,  u  e ; 
Goethe  occurs,  for  example,  in  alphabetical 
order,  before  Goldsmith,  instead  of  after  it. 
An  italicized  name  within  marks  of  paren- 
thesis following  the  name  of  an  author  is  the 
pseudonymn  of  such  author;  as  Agassiz, 
E.G.  (Adcea).  Brackets,  within  titles,  in- 
close words  added,  or  changed  in  form. 

III.  The  subject.  Find  this  under  the 
most  specific  head,  and  consult  other  heads 
referred  to  there ;  but  observe  that  these 
references  are  not  to  more  general  subjects, 
inasmuch  as  it  is  left  to  the  intelligence  of 
the  user,  to  look  for  matter  pertaining  to  the 
horse,  for  example,  under  such  general 
heads  as  Natm-al  History,  Animals,  Quad- 
rupeds, and    Mammals,   books    on    which 


36  CATALOGUES. 

general  topics  have,  almost  as  a  matter  of 
course,  chapters  or  sections  on  particular 
animals.  Again,  books  on  the  same  subject 
will  sometimes  be  found  under  different 
heads,  where  the  terms  are  synonymous, 
or  nearly  so,  as,  for  instance.  Coins  and 
Numismatics,  but  in  such  cases  cross-refer- 
ences from  one  to  the  other  will  always 
assist  the  searcher.  Indeed,  a  multiplication 
of  cross-references  is  a  fundamental  idea  of 
the  Dictionary  System.  This  necessitates, 
of  course,  the  disadvantage  of  turning  from 
one  part  of  the  catalogue  to  another,  but 
there  is,  on  the  other  hand,  a  great  advan- 
tage in  tlie  certainty  of  getting  a  clew  some- 
where, —  a  thing  often  impossible  in  a 
classified  catalogue,  except  to  such  as  have 
made  its  system  a  study. 

ASSISTANCE   TO   READERS 

will  be  afforded  by  officers  and  attendants 
of  the  Library  in   the  examination  of  the 


CATALOGUES.  37 

Catalogues,  to  such  an  extent  as  other 
duties  may  permit ;  but  it  should  be  remem- 
bered that  all  in  the  Library  have  special 
duties,  and  no  considerable  portion  of  their 
time  should  be  held  at  the  exclusive  disposal 
of  any  individual  reader;  and  it  is  enjoined 
upon  all  visitors  not  to  occupy  the  attend- 
ants' time  with  conversation  of  any  other 
kind. 

HOW   TO  OET   A   BOOK. 

Having  found  the  number  attached  to  the 
book  you  want,  take  a  slip  furnished  at 
the  Desk,  and  copy  in  the  prescribed  places 
the  name  and  residence  on  your  card. 

Find  in  the  Catalogue  the  numbers  at- 
tached to  the  book  you  want.  Put  the 
number  before  the  dot  (.)  in  the  column  on 
the  slip  headed  Shelf,  and  that  after  the  dot 
(.)  in  the  column  headed  No. ;  and,  if  the 
book  is  in  more  than  one  volume,  designate 
the  one  wanted  in  the  column  headed  Vol. 


38  CATALOGUES. 

Then  hand  the  slip  to  the  attendant  at  the 
desk,  together  wUti  your  card,  which  will  be 
returned  to  you  with  the  book. 

In  the  Loiver  Hall,  the  slips  will  be  found 
at  the  Clerk's  ])esk,  opposite  the  Indicator. 
It  is  advisable  1,o  insert  the  numbers  of  sev- 
ev\\]  books,  to  increase  the  cliance  of  finding 
one  of  them  in.  In  this  Hall,  hand  in  the 
slip  and  card  at  the  Receiving  Counter,  and 
watch  for  the  calling  of  your  name  at  the 
Delivery  Counter,  where  the  book  will  be 
given  to  you,  with  the  card.  If  no  book  is 
given  with  the  card,  it  means  that  all  the 
books  designated  onjthe  slip  are  out.  Then 
hand  in  a  new  slip,  with  other  numbers, 
with  the  card  again,  at  the  Receiving 
Counter. 

If  you  return  a  book  with  your  card  but 
without  a  slip  for  another  book,  the  card 
will  be  given  out  at  the  Delivery  Counter, 
not  at  the  place  it  was  put  in. 

If  you  wish  to  renew  a  book,  mention 


CATALOGUES.  39 

that  fact  to  the  attendant  at  the  Desk, — in 
the  Lower  Hall,  to  the  attendant  at  the 
Receiving  Counter,  —  handing  in  at  the 
same  time  a  new  slip  properly  filled  out 
with  the  name  and  residence  on  your  card, 
and  the  number  of  the  book  to  be  renewed. 

The  Libraries  of  the  Branches  are  in 
character  mainly  a  counterpart  of  the  Lower 
Hall  Library ;  and  the  foregoing  directions 
are  in  most  respects  applicable  to  the  use  of 
them. 

In  the  Bates  Hall,  if  you  do  not  find  a 
book  in,  you  can  have  word  sent  to  you 
when  it  is  returned  to  the  shelf  by  writing 
your  name,  address,  the  title  and  number 
of  the  book  on  a  slate,  which  will  be  fur- 
nished at  the  Desk.  In  such  case  the  book 
is  not,  however,  retained  for  you  if  another 
applies  for  it  before  you  do. 

BOOKS   RECOMMENDED. 

Whenever  a  book  wanted  by  any  person 
using  the  Library  does  not  belong  to  it, 


40  CATALOGUES. 

such  person  is  particularly  requested  to  en- 
ter the  title  of  the  book  on  a  slip  furnished 
for  the  purpose,  to  which  the  person's  name 
and  residence  must  be  added.  It  must  be 
remembered  that  the  right  book  may  fail  to 
come,  if  the  application  is  not  legibly  filled 
in,  and  correctly,  as  regards  title,  author, 
etc. ;  and,  furthermore,  that  there  may  be 
delays  in  ordering,  if  obscure  penmanship 
or  insufiicient  or  erroneous  data  render  the 
labor  of  verification  fruitless  or  uncertain. 

The  book  will  be  procured  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible, unless  there  is  some  special  reason 
for  not  purchasing  it;  and,  on  its  arrival,  it 
will  be  retained  in  the  Library  three  days, 
subject  to  the  order  of  the  person  asking  for 
it,  to  whom  due  notice  to  that  effect  will  be 
sent  by  mail.  It  is  not  intended,  however, 
to  allow  applicants  to  secure  the  first  read- 
ing of  popular  books  by  recommending 
them  before  publication ;  as  such  books  are 
purchased  irrespective  of  all  recommenda- 
tions. 


CATALOGUES.  41 

If  the  book  recommended  is  a  foreign 
book  (even  though  it  may  have  an  Ameri- 
can title-page)  it  is  for  the  interest  of  the 
Library  to  avoid  the  payment  of  duties  and 
to  gain  an  increased  discount  by  purchasing 
through  its  agents  in  ;he  principal  Euro- 
pean book  centres,  and  six  or  eight  weeks, 
and  in  some  cases  a  longer  time,  must 
elapse  before  the  applicant  can  be  notified 
of  its  arrival.  Additional  delays  take  place 
when  the  book  needs  to  be  bound  before 
it  is  sent  to  the  Library  by  its  agents,  or 
when  recommendations  are  received  just 
after  the  despatch  of  orders,  particularly  as 
regards  foreign  books. 

When  the  'book  recommended  is  out  of 
print  (and  books  still  standing  in  cuiTent 
catalogues  are  often  so)  no  positive  assur- 
ance of  its  speedy  pi-ocurement  can  be 
given.  When  applicants  desire  that  a  du- 
plicate should  be  added,  they  will  say  so; 
but  judgment  of  the  necessity  must  be  based 


42  CATALOGUES. 

upon  the  Library's  records  of  circulation. 
Bates  Hall  hooks  are  not  duplicated ;  but 
other  copies  or  copies  of  cheaper  editions  are 
sometimes  put  in  the  popular  departments. 

If  books  are  recommended  by  those  not 
holding  cards,  no  claim  for  special  us*e  can 
be  established,  even  if  they  are  bought  on 
such  recommendation. 

American  orders  are  despatched  almost 
daily ;  English,  French  and  German  only 
weekly  or  fortnightly,  and  those  to  Italy 
only  once  a  year. 

THE   INDICATOR,   IN  THE   LOWER   HALL. 

The  object  of  the  '*  Indicator"  is  to  show 
to  a  borrower,  at  a  glance,  without  the  ne- 
cessity of  reference  to  an  attendant  of  the 
Library,  whether  any  book  sought  is,  at  the 
moment,  on  the  shelf  or  lent  out,  and  there- 
fore to  render  it  unnecessary  to  send  in  a 
card  indicating  books  which  cannot  be  pro- 
cured. 

Observe  that  the  ••  Indicator,"  as  at  pres- 


CATALOGUES.  43 

ent  constructed,  applies  only  to  alcoves  4, 
7,  14  and  17,  wliich  embrace  icoi^ks  of  English 
prose  fiction  (including  Jiivenile  Fiction). 

Some  works  of  this  description  occur  in 
other  alcoves,  particularly  in  the  8th  and 
18th,  where  are  placed  collections,  such  as 
Bohn's  "Libraries,"  Harper's  "Family  Li- 
brary," Constable's  "  Miscellany,"  and  the 
like.  Their  numbers  are  therefore  not  on 
the  •*  Indicator,"  but  their  titles  are  given 
in  the  Class  List  for  Fiction,  as  well  as  in 
that  which  contains  collected  works ;  and 
they  may  be  obtained,  if  in  the  Library  at 
the  time  of  application,  by  simply  writing 
on  the  slips  provided  for  the  purpose  the 
proper  shelf-numbers,  and  handing  the  slips, 
together  with  the  applicant's  card,  to  the  re- 
ceiving attendant  in  the  Delivery  Room,  as 
is  done  in  the  case  of  all  works  not  fictitious. 

The  slielf-number  is  to  be  found  at  the  end 
of  each  row  of  pins.  The  number  denoting 
the  order  of  the  book  upon  the  shelf  is 
placed  upon  each  end  of  every  pin. 


44  CATALOGUES. 

The  pins  are  reversible.  On  one  end  of 
each  pin,  the  number  is  printed  in  black 
ON  WHITE  groundp  When  the  book  is  ON 
THE  SHELF,  this  cnd  of  the  pin  is  always 
turned  outwards. 

On  the  other  end  of  the  pin  the  number  of 
the  book  is  printed  in  white  on  black 
ground.  When  the  book  is  OUT,  this  end  of 
the  pin  is  always  turned  outwards. 

If  the  work  is  in  two  or  more  volilmes, 
the  volumes  following  the  first  are  indicated 
thus:  V.  2,  V.  3,  etc.,  on  the  end  of  the 
next  pins  in  order. 

I^' Please  erase  from  your  slip,  before 
delivering  it  to  the  attendant,  any  numbers 
of  books  in  the  alcoves  indicated  not  to  be 
on  the  shelves,  or  mark  distinctly,  by  a  cross 
against  its  number,  the  book  found  to  be  in. 

INDICATOR    FINDING  LIST. 

A  manuscript  List  of  the  numbers  repre- 
resented  on  the  Indicator,  and  of  the  titles 


CATALOGUES.  45 

of  the  books  corresponding  to  these  num- 
bers, has  been  prepared  as  subsidiary  to  the 
Class  List  for  Fiction,  and  will  be  found  at 
the  Clerk's  Desk. 

As  the  pins  of  the  Indicator  always  have 
the  ends  bearing  hlack  figures  on  a  lohite 
ground  turned  outwards  when  the  books  are 
on  the  shelf,  this  List  will  furnish  the  means 
of  readily  ascertaining  what  books  are  at 
any  time  in  the  alcoves  represented  by  the 
Indicator.  This  information  cannot  easily 
be  derived  from  the  Class  List,  which  is 
arranged  alphabetically  under  authors  and 
titles,  and  not  numerically  according  to  the 
books  on  the  shelves.  Hence,  to  learn 
whether  a  given  work  of  fiction  is  on  the 
shelf,  find  its  title  and  numbers  in  the  Class 
List,  and  then  consult  the  Indicator.  But 
to  learn  the  title  of  a  book  answering  to  any 
number  on  the  Indicator,  consult  only  the 
Indicator  Findino:  List. 


BOOKS  ON  SPECIAL  SUBJECTS. 

HOW  TO  FIND  THEM,  ETC. 


Ifote.  —  The  figures  in  [  ]  are  the  shelf-numbers  of  the 
books  referred  to  in  the  catalogues  of  this  Library. 

I.    GENERAL  DIRECTIONS. 

These  notes  are  not  intended  for  the  pro- 
fessed student,  but  for  the  general  reader. 
The  books  to  be  mentioned  are  but  an  insig- 
nificant proportion  of  the  twenty  thousand 
volumes  which  may  be  said  to  constitute  a 
thoroughly  appointed  bibliographical  col- 
lection. 

An  examination  of  the  Library's  cata- 
logues, both  under  authors  and  subjects, 
will  often  perplex  the  user  through  the  mul- 
titude of  titles,  leaving  him  at  a  loss  to 


BOOKS    ON    SPECIAL    SUBJECTS.  47 

determine  the  best  book  for  his  purpose. 
Proper  bibliographies  have  usually  some 
signs  of  discrimination  placed  against  titles, 
■with  more  or  less  qualification  in  the  way  of 
notes ;  but  such  addenda  are  not  commonly 
held  to  be  practicable  in  mere  catalogues, 
and  the  presence  or  absence  of  such  helps 
makes  a  chief  distinction  between  the  two. 

To  use  a  library  satisfactorily,  therefore, 
it  is  necessary  to  have  some,  if  not  a  large 
knowledge  of  these  bibliographical  helps. 

The  most  accessible  books  for  the  ordi- 
nary reader  are,  — 

1.  Alonzo  Potter.  Hand-book  for  Students  and 
Readers.     [820.60,] 

2.  J.  Pycroft.  Course  of  English  Reading.  Edited 
by  J.  A.  Spencer.     [405.19  and  20.] 

3.  Noah  Porter.  Books  and  Reading.  [404.17; 
405.2;  2207.4  and  5;  2477.7;  B.  H.  Desk;  R.  R.  Desk; 
E.  B.  Desk;  S.  B.  Desk;  Rox.  Desk.] 

4.  Charles  H.  Moore.  What  to  Read,  and  How 
to  Read.  [406.24;  2207.2  and  3;  B.  H.  Desk;  R.  R. 
Desk;  E.  B.  Desk;  S.  B.  Desk;  Rox.  Desk.} 

5.  George  P.  Putnam  and  Frederic  B.  PERBaNS. 


48    BOOKS  ON  SPECIAL  SUBJECTS. 

The  Best  Reading.  [1398.5;  6125.7,  8;  B.  H.  Desk; 
R.  R.  Desk;  E.  B.  Desk;  S.  B.  Desk;  Roi.  Desk.] 

6.  Free  Public  Libraries.  Suggestions  on  founda- 
tion, etc..  with  selected  list  of  hooks.     [6129.5.]  * 

These  hooks  are  all  American  except  Xo.  2;  hut  No.  5 
is  on  the  whole  the  most  satisfactory.  They  indicate 
choices  in  the  commoner  kinds  of  books.  Numbers  1,2, 
and  3  prescribe  courses  of  reading;  and  bo  does  No.  5  in 
a  subsidiary  way.  Nos.  2  and  3  are  valuable  as  to  modes 
of  reading.  The  selection  of  books  in  No.l  is  somewhat 
obsolete ;  and  in  No.  6  it  is  meagre. 

Within  the  range  of  history  (in  a  broad 
sense),  biography  and  travels,  the  notes 
which  are  appended  to  the  subject  references 
in  the  new  Lower  Hall  Class  List  of  that 
scope,  are  intended  to  aid  the  reader  in  the 
same  way. 

A  very  excellent  selection  for  working 
purposes  of  over  twenty  thousand  volumes 
of  the  best  books  in  every  department  of 
learning  is  the  **  List  of  Books  of  Reference 
in  the  Reading  Room  of  the  British  Muse- 
um," second  edition,  revised,  1871  [6144.2]. 
It  has  a  useful  index  of  subjects. 


HOW   TO    FIND     THEM,     ETC.  49 

It  is  often  a  prompt  and  satisfactory  way 
of  discovering  the  best  books  on  particular 
persons  or  subjects,  to  consult  the  articles 
on  such  heads  in  various  general  or  special 
Cyclopedias. 

Particularly,  as  regards  Biography,  there 
is  appended  to  L.  B.  Phillips's  "Dictionary 
of  Biographical  Reference"  [6242.4]  a  very 
good  list  of  Biographical  Dictionaries,  ar- 
ranged under  heads  of  1st,  general ;  2d, 
those  devoted  to  particular  countries ;  and 
3d,  those  devoted  to  particular  classes  of 
persons ;  while  in  connection  with  each 
name  in  the  body  of  this  Dictionary 
there  are  brief  indications  of  fuller  sources 
of  information.  E.  M.  Oettinger's  "Biblio- 
graphic Biographique,"  Brussels,  1854, 
[2140,11],  can  also  be  consulted  to  find  a 
copious  list  of  persons  whose  lives  have 
been  written,  often  by  numerous  authors; 
and  also  lists  of  general,  national  and 
special  biographical  collections.     For  Amer- 


50  BOOKS    ON    SPECIAL    SUBJECTS. 

ican  and  British  writers,  consult  Allibone's 
"Dictionary  of  Authors"  [B.  H.  Desk; 
R.  R.Deslv;  E.B.Desk;  S.  B.Desk].  Other 
authorities  will  occasionally  be  indicated 
in  works  of  lesser  scope,  like  Chambers's 
"  Cyclopaedia  of  English  Literature  "  [392.1 ; 
2551.2;  E.B.Desk;  S.  B.  Desk],  Duyck- 
inck's  "  Cyclopaedia  of  American  Literature" 
[B.  H.  Desk;  II.  R.  Desk;  E.B.Desk;  S. 
B.  Desk],  and  the  literary  histories  of 
Hallam  [402.4  ;_2193.1],  Craik,  and  others. 
The  best  guides  to  the  writers  in  foreign 
languages  will  be  found  in  the  Bates  Hall 
Catalogues,  under  the  heads,  Germany, 
Literature ;  French  Literature  ;  etc. 

But  the  proper  biographical  dictionaries 
will  often  answer  every  purpose,  and  more 
especially  regarding  persons  who  are  not 
writers.  In  Thomas's  excellent  '•  Diction- 
ary of  Biography  and  Mythology "  [B. 
H.  Desk;  R.  R.  Desk;  E.  B.  Desk;  S.  B. 
Desk],  frequent  references  to  works  and  re- 


HOW   TO    FIND    THEM,     ETC.  51 

view  articles  are  given  in  notes;  and  the 
same  kind  of  help,  to  a  less  extent,  will  be 
gained  from  Hole  and  Wheeler's^"  Brief  Bio- 
graphical Dictionary  "  [B.  H.  Desk ;  R.  R. 
Desk ;  E.  B.  Desk  ;  S.  B.  Desk] .  In  American 
biography  there  is  Allen  [2345.5;  2346.1], 
and  a  recent  work  by  F.  S.  Drake  [B.  H. 
Desk ;  R.  R.  Desk ;  E.  B.  Desk ;  S.  B.  Desk] , 
which  is  the  best  index  to  living  Americans. 
A  small  work,  called  "Men  of  the  Times" 
[B.  H.  Desk] ,  issued  at  intervals  of  two  or 
three  years,  is  an  English  guide  to  living 
subjects  of  biography ;  but  it  is  of  little  value, 
exceptmg  sometimes  as  regards  Britons. 
Martin's  "  Dictionary  of  Contemporary 
Biography"  [B.  H.  Desk;  R.  R.  Desk] 
may  also  be  mentioned.  For  American 
Clergymen  there  is  Sprague's  "Annals  of 
the  American  Pulpit "  [2346.4] . 

The  French  work  of  Vapereau,  "  Diction- 
naire  des  Contemporains"  [2242.1],  sur- 
passes all  books  of  this  kind.  And  as  regards 


52    BOOKS  ON  SPECIAL  SUBJECTS. 

the  more  general  biographical  dictionaries, 
the  best  in  English,  like  the  "  Imperial  Dic- 
tionary of  Biography"  [B.  H.  Desk],  the 
Biographical  Department  ^of  the  English 
Cyclopaedia  [B.  H.  Desk],  and  that  by 
Rose  [R.  R.  Desk],  are  interior  to  Michaud's 
** Biographic  Universelle"  [2243.1 ;  4134.1.] 
and  to  Hoefer's  *'  Nouvelle  Biographic 
G6n6rale  "  [2242.6],  which  last  is  particu- 
larly rich  in  references  to  sources.  Volume 
IX  of  the  Catalogue  of  the  National  library 
at  Paris  [6161.1]  is  devoted  to  the  biogra- 
phies of  Frenchmen. 

Similar  methods  of  research  will  serve  in 
other  subjects  than  biography. 

The  principal  general  encyclopaedias  to  be 
consulted  are 


Appleton's  New  American  Cyclopjedia,  and  its  annual 
supplements.  [B.  H.  Desk;  R.  R.  Desk;  E.  B.  Desk; 
S.  B.  Desk.] 

Chambers's  Encyclopaedia.  [B.  A.  Desk;  R.  R.  Desk; 
E.  B.  Desk;  S.  B.  Desk.] 


HOW   TO    FIND     THEM,     ETC.  53 

Euglisli  Cyclopaedia,  based  on  the  old  Penny  Cyclo- 
paedia, divided  into  four  grand  divisions.     [B.  H.  Desk.] 

Encyclopaedia  Britannica.    [B.  H.  Desk;  R.  R.  Desk.] 

Encyclopaedia  Metropolitana,  1845.  [A.  175.1.]  Some- 
what antiquated. 

Larousse's  Grand  Dictionnaire  'Universel  du  XIXe 
sifecle,  as  far  as  completed.     [4690.11.] 

Brockhaus's  "Conversations-Lexikon."     [A.  137.1.] 

Pierer's  Universal-Lexikon.    [A.142.2.] 

See  Bates  Hall  Catalogues  under  "  Cyclopaedia  "  and 
"  Encyclopaedia,"  for  others. 

Reviews  and  other  periodicals  contain 
much  useful  material ;  and  Poole's  *' Index 
to  Periodical  Literature"  [B.  H.  Desk]  is  a 
convenient  key  to  many  of  them  published 
before  1852.  See  also  Low's  "Index  to 
Current  Literature,"  1860,  61  [6150.4]. 

A  table  showing  the  principal  periodicals 
that  have  general  or  comprehensive  indexes, 
covering  a  number  of  years,  and  also  the 
shelf-numbers  of  the  copies  in  this  Library, 
is  given  in  the  last  edition  of  "Periodicals 
Currently  Received,"  at  the  Library. 


54         BOOKS    ON    SPECIAX     SUBJECTS. 

On  obscure  and  mooted  points,  it  will 
always  be  well  to  refer  to  the  indexes 
of  "Notes  and  Queries"  [3159.1]  and  of 
"  L'Intermediaire  des  chercheurs,"  [5402.1]. 

Many  matters  in  all  departments  of  knowl- 
edge are  treated  of  in  the  public  documents 
of  the  United  States,  and  in  the  British  Blue 
Books,  and  a  full  index  to  them  will  be  found 
in  the  Bates  Hall  Catalogues,  under  the 
headings  *' United  States,"  and  "Great 
Britain."  See  also  Index  to  Executive 
Documents  and  reports  of  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives 1831-39  [C.  159.11]  ;  McPher- 
son's  Indexes  to  "  Executive  Documents  of 
the  House  of  Representatives,"  1839-69  [C. 
251.1]  ;  Index  to  Documents  of  the  House  of 
Representatives,  18th-21st  Congress  [C. 
159.10],  and  to  "Reports  of  Committees  of 
the  House  of  Representatives,"  1839-69 
[C.  251.2]. 

Catalogues  of  other  libraries  will  also  be 
of  use ;  and  those  that  are  made  on  some 


HOW   TO    FIND    THEM,     ETC.  55 

systematic  division  of  knowledge  will  be  of 
assistance  as  supplementing  the  "dictionary" 
plan  of  the  catalogues  of  this  Library,  as,  for 
instance,  the  *'  Subject  Catalogue  "  of  the  Li- 
brary of  Congress  [6130. 8], which  is  arranged 
by  classes  and  their  sub-divisions.  See  the 
new  catalogue  (now  in  press)  of  the  Boston 
Athenaeum,  particularly  under  the  head  of 
Bibliography.  The  whole  subject  of  classed 
catalogues  is  not  without  difficulties,  as  may 
be  apprehended,  when  it  is  known  that  more 
than  one  hundred  and  fourteen  diflferent 
systems  have  been  proposed  for  classifying 
all  knowledge. 

The  extent  of  the  science  of  Bibliography 
will  appear  to  the  general  reader  from  that 
thorough  specimen  of  German  erudition, 
the  "Bibliotheca Bibliographical  [2127.26], 
which  the  librarian  of  the  Royal  Library  at 
Dresden,  Dr.  Julius  Petzholdt,  issued  in 
1866.  It  contains  titles  of  bibliographical 
works  in  all  languages,  under  the  several 


56  GENERAL     BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 

heads  of,  1st,  General  Literature ;  2d,  Anon- 
3'mous  and  Pseudonymous  Books;  3d,  In- 
cunabula, or  early  printed  books ;  4th, 
Works  Prohibited  by  Censors ;  5th,  AVorks 
on  or  by  Particular  Persons  ;  6th,  Collections 
of  Engraved  Portraits  ;  7th,  National  Litera- 
tures ;  8th,  Classed  Literatures. 

Similar  but  far  less  extensive  lists  are 
given  in  R.  A.  Guild's  •'  Librarian's  Man- 
ual,"  New  York,  18c8.   [2122.15.] 

Thomas  Nichols's  •*  Handbook  for  Readers 
at  the  British  Museum,"  London,  1866, 
[6125.3],  contains  (pp.  71-81)  a  classed 
list  of  special  bibliographies  on  different 
subjects. 

II.   GENERAL  BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 

The  most  useful  is  Brunet's  "  Manuel  du 
Libraire,"  Bruxelles,  1838-45  [4535.2],  and 
Paris,  1860-5  [2142.4],  which  is  both  al- 
phabetical by  authors  and  classified  by  sub- 
jects.    A  German  work,  based  on  an  early 


NATIONAL   BIBLIOGRAPHIES.  57 

edition  of  Brunet,  is  known  in  English  as 
Ebert's  "  General  Bibliographical  Diction- 
ary," Oxford,  1837.  [2140.2.]  Another, 
more  copious  than  Brunet,  and  like  that 
written  in  French,  is  J.  G.  T .  Graesse's 
**  Tresor  de  Livres  Rares  et  Precieux " 
[2150.3],  which  has  not,  however,  any  ar- 
rangement by  subjects. 

III.   NATIONAL  BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 

A  Selection  only.  Consult  also  the  literary 
histories  given,  under  the  names  of  Coun- 
tries, in  the  Bates  Hall  Catalogues. 

America.  —  Of  books  relating  to  America,  there  are 
the  bibliographies  of  Temaux-Compans,  down  to  1700 
[2152.11];  Obadiah  Rich  [2152.4-6];  Henry  Stevens 
[2152.28;  4412.11  and  12;  4462.13;  6152.9  and  10];  and 
Harrisse.  1492  to  1551  [2150.21;  6152.2],  and  New  France 
1545-1700  [6158.14].  J.  Sabin,  of  New  York,  is  now  issu- 
ing a  very  extensive  "  Dictionary  of  Books  relating  to 
America"  [2159. 2J.  Tuckerman's  "America  and  her 
Commentators  "  [2368,7]  gives  an  account  of  the  different 
works  by  travellers  in  America. 


58  NATIONAL    BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 

Ofhooks  published  in  America,  previously  to  this  cen- 
tury, there  is  no  adequate  record.  Trubner's  "  Biblio- 
graphical Guide  to  American  Literature"  [2152.12  and 
13]  covers  a  little  more  than  the  first  half  of  this  century, 
and  contains  a  classified  list.  See  also  Triibner's  Amer- 
ican  and  Oriental  Literary-  Record  [6141.19]. 

Sine*  1820,  there  is  a  record  of  American  publications 
in    Roorbach's    "  Bibliotheca  Americana"    [2152.1-3], 
coming  down  through  1860;  and  it  has  been  continued  by 
Kelly  in  his  "American  Catalogue"  [2152.22],  and  by  j 
Leypoldt  in  the  "Annual  Catalogue"  [6152.6],  through  I 
1871. 

0/  Special  American  Bibliographies,  the  following 
may  be  named,  —  Ludewig's  "  Literature  of  Local 
American  History  "  [2152.9]  and  '"Literature  of  Amer- 
ican Aboriginal  Languages  "[2152.7];  Colburn'e  "Bibli- 
ography of  the  Local  History  of  Massachusetts"  [61o2. 
15] ;  Whitmorc'8  "  Handbook  of  American  Genealogy  " 
[2152.25] ;  "  Lincoln  Bibliography  "  by  Boyd  and  Hart 
[6152.11];  Bartlett'8  ••  Literature  of  the  Rebellion" 
[2152.20],  covering  over  6,000  titles,  and  his  "Bibliog- 
raphy of  Rhode  Island  "  [21.52.18].  The  American  part 
of  the  Prince  Library  Catalogue  has  a  specidl  value 
regards  the  early  history  of  New  England. 

Great  Britain.  — The  principal  assistance  under 
subjects  will  be  derived  from  Watt's  "  Bibliotheca  Bri- 
tannica  "  [2150.13],  which,  however,  does  not  bring  the 
record  down  later  than  1820.  It  is  partly  arranged  by 
authors,  as  Lowndes's  "  Bibliographer's  Manual,"  pub- 


NATIONAL    BIBLIOGRAPHIES.  59 

lished  in  1834  [2153.5],  is  wholly;  but  a  new  edition  of 
the  latter  by  Bohn  [2153.20],  begun  in  1858,  is  much  en- 
larged in  the  latter  part  of  the  alphabet,  and,  under  the 
article  *'  Shakespeare,"  will  be  found  a  very  full  bibli- 
ography (also  published  separately  with  additions, 
[2153.8]);  but  there  are  some  additions  to  that  part  of 
the  article  which  is  in  the  English  language,  in  the  ar- 
ticle on  Shakespeare  in  AlUbone ;  and  the  German  bibli- 
ography by  Thimm  brings  the  lists  down  to  1871, 
[6162.17].  The  catalogue  of  the  "  Shakespeare  Memorial 
Library,"  at  Birmingham  [6208.15],  will  be  of  impor- 
tance when  completed. 

For  an  alphabetical  list  of  authors  in  the  English  lan- 
guage, with  biographical  and  bibliographical  details, 
Allibone  [B.  H.  Desk;  R.  R.  Desk;  E.  B.  Desk;  S.  B. 
Desk]  will  be  of  great  though  unequal  ser^nce.  As  far 
as  the  letter  O  the  record  generally  closes  about  1858,  and 
is  much  less  complete  than  in  the  latter  part  of  the  alpha- 
bet, where  the  record  comes  down  to  1870.  The  classing 
of  writers  in  the  indexes  is  not  adapted  to  facilitate 
reference.  An  index  to  matters  in  the  body  of  the  arti- 
cles is  much  needed. 

Consult  also  J.  P.  Collier's  "Bibliographical  and  Crit- 
ical Account  of  the  Rarest  Books  In  the  English  Lan- 
guage" [2155.13],  and  W.  C.  Hazlitt's  "Handbook  to 
the  Popular,  Poetical  and  Dramatic  Literature  of  Great 
Britain,"  to  the  Restoration  [2153.17]. 

The  comprehensive  lists,  covering  different  periods 
from  1800  down,  known  as    the  "  London  Catalogue  " 


60  NATIONAL     BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 


[2153.4],  the  "English  Catalogue"  [2153.4],  and  the 
"British  Catalogue"  [2153.4],  are  alphabetical  hy  au- 
thors; while  the  "  Bibliotheca  Londinensis,"  1814-1846, 
and  Low's  "Index  to  the  British  Catalogue,"  1837-1857 
[vol.  4  of  2153.4]  are  classed  lists.  There  are  yearly 
volumes  published  of  the  London  and  English  cat»-i 
logues. 

France.  —  Qu^rard's  various  bibliographies  are  the 
best,  —  "La  France  Litteraire "  [2163.1];  and  "La 
Litterature  fran9ai6e  Contemporaine "  [2163.2],  which, 
with  Lorenz's  Continuation,  "Catalogue  General,"  1840- 
1865  [2143.10],  make  a  record  covering  the  years  1700- 
1865.  The  Catalogue  of  the  National  Library  at  Paris 
gives  full  lists  of  books  on  French  history  [6161.1]. 

Germany. — The  German  bibliographies  are  gener- 
ally without  notes.  That  of  Heinsius,  "Allgemeines 
Biicher-Lexikon  "  [2151.2],  covers  publications  from  1700 
down,  and  is  inconvenient  for  use  because  of  its  many 
supplements ;  and  so  is  Kayser's  "  Vollstandiges  Biicher- 
Lexicon,"  from  1750  [2150.15  and  16],  but  the  latter  has 
the  advantage  of  a  classified  index  from  1750  to  1832. 
There  are  also  classed  catalogues  by  Engelmann  [see  B. 
H.  Index],  and  byErsch  [2168.2;  2170.35]. 

Italy.  —  "  Bibliografia  italiana  "  [2162.5].  ; 

Spain. — Antonio's  "Bibliotheca  Hispana"  [3090.2,1 
and  3]. 

PORTDGAi,.  —  Barbosa's  "Bibliotheca  Lusitana"  [D. 
190.9],  and  Silva's  "Diccionario  Bibliographico  Portu- 
guez"  [2164.8]. 


BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  PERIODICALS.        61 

Jewish.  — Fuerst'8  "  Bibliotheca  Judaica"  [6685.11], 
and  the  Catalogue  of  Hebrew  books  in  the  British 
Museum"  [6162.2]. 

Oriental.  —  Zenker's  "  Bibliotheca  Orientalis" 
[2164.11] ;  and  Triibner's  American  and  Oriental  Lit- 
erary Record  [6141.19]. 

IIV.     BIBLIOGRAPHICAL   PERIODICALS. 

For  current  works  in  English  consult  Sabin's  "  Ameri- 
■  can  Bibliopolist "  (imperfect  record)  [2159.2]  and  Ley- 
poldt's  "Publisher's  Weekly,"  which  has  taken  the  place 
of  the  old  '■  Publisher's  Circular."  The  London  "  Book- 
seller" [6181.1]  and  "Publisher's  Circular"  [6155.1] 
are  similar  records  for  Great  Britain.  For  publications 
in  French  there  are  the  monthly  issues  of  Bossange 
[2139.2]  and  Reinwald  [2149.2],  in  Paris,  and  of  Chris- 
tern  [6150.5],  in  New  York.  The  "  Polybiblion,  Revue 
Bibliographique  Universelle "  [6143.7],  has  been  pub- 
lished since  1866.  The  "  Bibliographie  de  la  France  " 
[2164.2]  has  a  yearly  index  of  authors  and  subjects. 
For  those  in  German  there  are  the  lists  of  Christern 
[6150.5],  Westermann  [6150.12-14],  and  Steiger  [6158.3], 
in  New  York.  The  "Allgemeine  Bibliographie" 
[6150.6],  published  monthly  by  Brockhaus,  of  Leipzig, 
is  a  classed  Catalogue  of  the  most  important  European 
and  American  publications,  and  is  circulated  in  the 
United  States  with  the  imprints  of  the  principal  import- 
ers of  Continental  books. 


62  SPECIAL    BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 


Other  useful  publications  as  records  of  current  biblio- 
graphical issues  are  Petzholdt's  "  Neuer  Anzeiger " 
[2127.1  and  6152.24],  which  has  been  continued  since 
1840,  with  useful  classified  indexes,  and  the  "  Sera- 
peum  "  [2146.1]  now  discontinued,  also  running  back  to 
1840,  and  published  twice  a  month  at  Leipzig. 

V.     SPECIAL  BIBLIOGKAPHIES. 

Only  a  Selection.  See  further  under  particular  sub- 
jects in  the  Bates  Hall  Catalogues,  and  under  the  head 
*^ Bibliography,^''  in  the  Subject- Catalogue  of  the  Library 
of  Congress  [6130.8].  Consult  also  '■'■A  Concise  Classi- 
fied List  of  the  Most  Important  Works  on  Bibliography  " 
in  the  Astor  Library,  1849  [6123.2] ;  and  Mr.  LeypoldVa 
list  in  the  ''Weekly  Trade  Circular,'^  new  series,  Vol.11., 
Ko.  17. 

Agricultdre.  —  Lists  in  Loudon's  Encyclopaedias 
[See  B.  H.  Index],  and  in  McCulloch's  Dictionaries 
[2284.2;  3683.3]. 

Angling.  — R.  Blakey,  1855  [2173.7];  T.  Westwood, 
1861  [6111.25]. 

Anonymous  AND  PsECDONYMOrs  "Works.  —  Barb ier, 
1822,  etc.,  now  included  in  Querard,  1869,  etc.,  [6143.2], 
See  also  Ralph  Thomas  (Olphar  Hamst)  [2144.17]  ;  Manne, 
1868,  [2144.13] ;  Heilly,  1868,  [6149.20]. 

Architecture.  B^ee  Fine  Arts.  Also,  Gwilt's  "En- 
cyclopaedia," 1854,  classified  [4107.2],  Lacroix  [2172.31]. 

Arithmetic.    See  Mathematics. 


SPECIAL     BIBLIOGRAPHIES.  63 

Art.    See  Fine  Arts. 

Astronomy.  See  Science.  Also,  La  Lande,  1803,  by- 
authors  and  subjects  [E.  186.4],  Sohncke,  1854  [2172.15]. 

Bible.    See  Theology. 

Bibliography.  See  previous  sections.  Also,  T.  Gar, 
"  Letture  di  Bibliologia,"  1868  [6163.1]. 

Biography.  See  Gene'  al  Remarks.  Also,  Library 
of  Congress  "Subject-Catalogue,"  under  "Biography" 
[6130.8]. 

Botany.  See  Science.  Also,  G-.  A.  Pritzel,  1851 
[2170.15]. 

Catholic  Authors,  who  have  published  in  the 
United  States,  1784-1820.    J.  M.  Finotti  [6185.4]. 

Chemistry.    See  Science.    Also,  E.  A.  Zuchold,  1859. 

Classical  Literature. —  Engelmann  [2174.6]. 

Commerce.  — J.  R.  McCulloch  [3683.3].  T.  C.  F. 
Enslin  [2177.7].    • 

Domestic  and  Rurax  Economy.  —  Engelmann 
[2186.3]. 

Drama.  —  Baker's  "Biographia  Dramatica,"  1812, 
authors  and  plays  [2175.3];  Halliwell,  before  1700, 
[2175.20].  For  more  modern  popular  plays  consult  the 
article  "Drama,"  in  the  Lower  Hall  class  list  for  Poetry 
and  the  Drama,  which  has  cross-references  under  authors 
and  plays;  also  the  heading  "  Drama,"  in  the  "  Subject- 
Catalogue  "  of  the  Library  of  Congress  [6130.8],  and  the 
catalogue  of  Wm.  E.  Burton's  library  [6200.2]. 

"  Bibliotheque  Dramatique  de  Monsieur  de  Soleinne,** 
Paris,  1843  [2175.1],  and  continuation  to  1861  [6174.18], 
with  a  previous  continuation  to  1846  [6174.17J . 


64  SPECIAL    BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 

Fernbach,  "  Der  Theatrefreund,"  Berlin,  1860 
[2175.10],  and  Heinsius,  vol.  4,  pp.  245-376,  and  vol. 
5,  pp.  55-70  [2151.2].  Buechting  [6149.15]  comes  down 
to  1869.  A  list  of  operas  published  down  to  1870  is 
found-  in  Clement  and  Larousse's  "  Dictionnaire  Ly- 
rique"  [8043.55]. 

Education.  —  Walter  Low's  "  Classified  Catalogue  of 
Educational  Works,"  1871  [6174.11] ;  and  Trade  Circu- 
lar, vol.  11,  ISTos.  2  and  3. 

Engraving.  —  G.  Duplessis,  1862  [4087.12]. 

Entomology.  See  Science.  Also,  H.  A.  Hagen, 
1862  [2173.17]. 

Fiction.  —  See  the  "  Class  List  for  Fiction  in  the  Lower 
Hall,"  and  the  article  "  Fiction"  in  the  Library  of  Con- 
gress "  Subject-Catalogue  "  [6130.8],  which  is  arranged 
by  subdivisions,  according  to  authors,  titles,  and  lan- 
guages. See  also  "The  Chronological  Index  to  Historical 
Fiction,"  issued  by  this  Library.  Also,  the  New  York 
Mercantile  Library  Association's  "Catalogue  of  Novels, 
Plays,"  etc.,  1861  [2136.28],  and  vol.  4,  pp.  5-238,  and  vol. 
5,  pp.  5-44,  of  Heinsius  [2151.2]. 

Fine  Arts.  Qqq  Architecture,  Engraving,  Jfusic.  Also, 
J.  Elmes,  1826  [4082.1],  M.  J.  Godde,  1850  [2138,4],  R. 
Weigel  [2200.33]. 

The  authorities  of  the  South  Kensington  Museum  have 
issued  a  "  Universal  Catalogue  of  Books  on  Art,"  taking 
the  term  in  a  wide  sense,  but  excluding  music,  covering 
about  67,000  works  published  previously  to  1870.  It  is 
alphabetical  by  authors  [6172.2]. 


SPECIAL     BIBLIOGRAPHIES.  65 

G-EOGRAPHY.  See  Mapa.  Also,  Engelmann  [2177.8]  ; 
and  the  Catalogue  of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society, 
1871  [620S.27]. 

Geology.  Qee  Science.  Also,  Agassiz  [2173.4;  3824.1]. 

Geomktry.     See  Matheinatics. 

Government.  —  R.  vonMohl,  1855-6  [4285.1]. 

History.  —  Struve,  1782-1804  [2177.1],  and  Branet,  un- 
der "HistoJre"  [2148.1;  2142.2].  For  use  of  historical 
material  in  Fiction  see  the  "Chronological  Index  to 
Historical  Fiction,"  issued  by  this  Library. 

Language.  — Engehnann  [2174.9],  Vater  [2174.10]. 

Law.  —  Brunet  under  "Jurisprudence"  [2148.1; 
2142.2.],  the  '•  Subject-Catalogue "  of  the  Library  of 
Congress,  under  "Law,"  [6130.8],  for  a  very  extensive 
list ;  also,  the  catalogue  of  the  Boston  Social  Law  Library 
[2139.24],  Engelmann  [2185.1],  Enslin  [2185.30],  For 
diplomatic  law,  Martens,  1851  [3615.7]. 

Maps.  See  Geography.  Also  H.  Stevens's  Catalogue 
of  Arqerican  Maps,  in  the  British  Museum,  and  "A 
Catalogue  of  Maps  and  Charts  in  the  library  of  Harvard 
University,"  1831  [2134.1,  3]. 

Mathebiatics.  See  Science.  —  Murhard,  1797-1805 
[2172.33],  Sohncke,  1854  [2172.15].  For  Arithmetic,  I>e 
Morgan,  1847  [2172.8],  Poggendorif,  1863  [2175.55]. 

Mechanics.  See  Scie^ice.  Also,  Engelmann,  1844-50 
[2172.5],  Murhard,  1803-4  [vols.  3  and  4  of  2172.33], 
Sohncke,  1854  [2172.15]. 

Medicine.  — Callisen,  1830-45  [2187.1],  Forbes,  1885 


60  SPECIAL     BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 


[2186.1],  Pennsylvania  Hospital  Library  Catalogue,  1857 
[2135.1],  Engelmann  [2186.2]. 

Military  Science.  —  Rumpf,  1824  [2172.27].  Hoyer, 
1832-40  [2172.30],  M.  d'Ayaia,  1854  [2172.18],  "Cata- 
logue de  la  Bibliotheque  du  depot  de  la  Guerre," 
Paris,  1801  [2172.17]. 

Music.  —  Ferkel,  1792  [2170.23],  Lichtenthal,  1826 
[2170.22],  Becker,  1839  [2170.24]. 

Natural  History.  See  Botany,  Entomology,  Geol- 
ogy, Zoology,  Also,  Dryander  [2131.1],  Engelmann 
[2173.2].  . 

Periodicals.  See  this  heading  in  Bates  Hall  cata- 
logues, and  the  "  List  of  periodicals  currently  received 
in  the  Reading-room."  Annual  lists  of  current  foreign 
periodicals  are  published.  May's  "London  Press 
Directory"  [6196.1]  gives  its  lists  in  various  classifica- 
tions. See  Rowell's  "Newspaper  Directory  for  the 
United' States  "  [6130.2],  issued  yearly.  An  index  to  the 
London  "Times"  [5356.50],  is  regularly  published. 

Philosophy. —  Geissler,  1850  [2174,7;  2176.3(T]. 

Photography.—  Zuchold,  1860  [2173.23]. 

Political  Economy.  —  McCulIoch,  1845  [2172.3], 
Blanqui,  1845  [3647.5]. 

Pseudonymous  Works.    See  Anonymous,  etc. 

Railroads.    See  list  in  Larousse  [4690.11.3.] 

Science,  See  Special  Heads.—  Brunet,  under  head- 
ing of  "Sciences  et  Arts"  [2142,4],  Lacroix  to  1864, 
[2172,31],  See  references  under  subjects  in  such  worka 
as  the  Iconographic  Encyclopaedia  [A.  164,1],  Brande'a 


SPECIAL   BIBLIOGRAPHIES.  67 


Manual  [3971.11],  Ure's  Dictionary  [B,  H.  Desk;  R.  R. 
Desk],  "Watts's  Dictionary  of  Chemistry  [R.  R.  Desk; 
B.  H.  Desk].  Royal  Society's  Catalogue  of  Scientific 
Papers,  lSOO-1863,  arranged  by  authors,  as  far  as  com- 
pleted [2140.8], 
Shakespeare.    See  under  Great  Britain  in  Section 

m. 

Theologt.  —  Brunet,  under  heading  "  Theologie  " 
[2142.4],  Clarke,  through  eighteenth  century  [2148.3], 
Darling,  1854-9  [2142.1],  EnsUn,  1823  [2183,1],  Winer, 
1842  [2182.2],  Library  of  Congress  "  Subject-catalogue," 
under  "  Theology"  [6130.8],  Zuchold,  1864  [2182.6]. 

See  H.  Malcom's  much-criticised  "  Index  to  Religious 
Literature"  [2190.19],  and  references  under  separate 
heads  in  Smith's  ••*  Bible  Dictionarj-,"  edited  by  Hackett 
and  Abbot  [B.  H.  Desk;  R.  R.  Desk],  McClintock  and 
Strong's  Cyclopaedia  [B.  H.  Desk;  R.  R.  Desk;  S.  B. 
Desk],  Kitto's  Cyclopaedia  of  Biblical  Literature  "  [B. 
H.  Desk]. 

Abbot's  "  Literature  of  the  Doctrine  of  a  Future 
Life  "  [6202.7]  is  probably  the  most  elaborate  and  ex- 
haustive specimen  of  Special  Bibliography  by  an  Ameri- 
can ;  and  its  preface  may  be  consulted  for  the  titles  of  such 
bibliographical  treatises  as  Professor  Abbot  found  of  use 
to  him  ten  years  ago.  See  also  O'Callaghan's  "  Editions 
of  the  Holy  Scriptures  printed  in  America,"  1861  [2190.30], 
and  Decanver's  [Cavender's]  "Catalogue  of  works  in 
refutation  of  Methodism  "  [6185.1  and  6182.10]. 

For  the  literature  relating  to  Christ,  a  very  thorough 


68  SPECIAL     BIBLIOGRAPHIES. 


bibliography  is  given  in  the  4th  edition  of  Hase's 
"  Leben  Jesu"  [6037.9],  but  there  is  a  list  of  suflBcient 
fulness  for  the  ordinary  reader  in  Clarke's  translation  of 
Hase  [114.13].  Convenient  reference  can  be  had  to  the 
authorities  given  in  "  Smith's  Bible  Dictionary"  [B.  H. 
Desk],  and  "  Kitto's  Biblical  Encyclopaedia"  [B.  H. 
Desk],  under  "Jesus  Christ." 

Voyages.  —  Boucher  de  la  Richarderie,  1808  [2177.3] 
is  arranged  chronologically  under  countries;  also,  O, 
Rich,  1835-1846  [2152.4]. 

Zoology.  See  Science.  — Agassiz  [2173.4;  3824.1], 
Carus  [2173.19],  for  periodical  articles  issued  1846-1860, 
Swainson,  1840  [6177.2]. 

Works  issued  by  Printing  Clubs.  —  Bohn's 
Lowndes,  appendix  volume  [2153.20],  Low's  English 
Catalogue,  1835-1862,  appendix  [2153,4]. 

Works  Privately  Printed.  — Bohn's  Lowndes' ap- 
pendix volume  [2153.20],  Martin,  1854  [2184.2]. 

Works  Lost,  or  in  Unique  Copies.  —  Querard,  1872, 
Ltfl64.9]. 


RARITIES  IN  BOOKS,  ETC. 


The  Library,  thus  far  in  its  history,  in  aim- 
ing primarily  to  supply  the  most  useful 
books,  has  not  made  any  considerable  col- 
lection of  early  printed  books  which  might 
serve  to  illustrate  the  rise  and  progress  of 
the  art  of  printing.  Block-books  were  the 
immediate  precursors  of  printing,  being  the 
development  of  the  art  of  engraving  on 
wood  beyond  what  had  before  been  prac- 
tised in  the  making  of  playing  cards,  and  of 
these  the  Library  has  nothing  better  as  a 
specimen  than  a  fac-simile  of  a  German 
block-book,  of  about  1471  [3441.51],  being 
the  Apostle's  Creed,  after  the  original  in 
the  Munich  Library,    which  is  said  to  be 


70  RARITIES    IN   BOOKS. 

unique.  In  this  connection  consult  Sotheby's 
"  Prineipia  Typographical'  [2110.7]  and 
his  monograph  on  the  block-books  in  the 
Library  at  Paris  [2120.19]  ;  and  also  Weigel 
and  Zestermann's  ••  Anfange  der  Drucker- 
kunst,"  Leipzig,  1866. 
■  Germany,  in  taking  the  lead  in  the  de- 
velopment of  the  art,  established  a  form  of 
letter  massive  and  vigorous,  and  the  Library 
possesses  a  few  specimens,  of  which  the  fol- 
lowing may  be  named  :  — 

A  Latin  Bible,  known  as  Eggestein's  first 
Bible ;  the  first  volume  only.  Genesis  to 
Psalms,  printed  at  Strasburg  in  1468.  It 
belonged  to  Theodore  Parker.     [6010.3.] 

A  Latin  Bible,  imperfect,  i)rinted  at  Stras- 
burg in  1470.     [6010.4.] 

A  Book  on  the  lives  and  deaths  of  Poets 
and  Philosophers,  in  Latin,  and  in  Gothic 
type,  by  Walter  Burley.  Imperfect.  Printed 
at  Nuremberg,  in  1472.  It  belonged  to 
Theodore  Parker.     [B.  140.15.i 


RAKITIES    IN    BOOKS.  71 

An  incomplete  set  of  the  Speculum  qua- 
druplex  of  Vincentius  Bellovancensis,  or  de 
Burgundia,  in  nine  volumes  as  bound,  in- 
cluding two  volumes  of  duplicates.  Printed 
in  1473-76  at  Strasburg  and  Augsburg.  It 
belonged  to  Theodore  Parker.  [B.  150.1-6.] 
The  Sermoues  of  Utino  [B.  140.12]  sup- 
posed by  Haym  to  have  been  printed  1474. 

The  Nuremberg  Chronicle,  so  called, 
with  many  wood-cut  illustrations.  Printed 
in  1493.  It  belonged  to  Theodore  Parker. 
[4140.5.] 

A  German  Bible  (Genesis  to  Psalms)  with 
many  colored  prints,  some  of  them  nearly 
the  same  as  in  the  Nuremberg  Chronicle ; 
somewhat  imperfect.  Printed  at  Nuremberg 
in  1483.  It  belonged  to  Theodore  Parker. 
[6010.10.] 

The  Epistles  of  St.  Jerome  in  Latin. 
Printed  at  Lyons,  in  1518.  On  the  inside  of 
the  cover  is  the  following  quotation  from 
Gerson,  in  the  autograph  of  Luther:   ''In 


72  RARITIES   IN   BOOKS. 

floreno  litis,  non  est  obulus  ctiaritatis. 
Maitinus  Lutherus."  It  belonged  to  Theo- 
dore Parker.     [B.  140.7.] 

A  Latin  Bible,  printed  at  Lj'ons  in  1519  [  ?] 
in  black  letter.     [5416.20.] 

The  Geography  of  Claudius  Ptolemy 
(flourished  in  the  second  century).  Printed 
at  Argentoragi  [Strasburg?]  in  1525.  It  has 
49  maps,  called  ancient  and  modern,  and 
the  last,  dated  1522,  has  the  name  "America" 
upon  a  representation  of  South  America. 
[2280.7.] 

A  set  of  De  Bry's  Voyages,  in  nine  vol- 
umes, printed  at  Frankfort,  1590-1634,  with 
its  interesting  maps.  -Copies  of  this  work 
vary  much  in  collation,  but  this  copy  is 
thought  to  be  very  full,  as  the  collation  given 
in  the  Index  to  the  Bates  Hall  will  show. 
[2360.26.] 

Nine  various  works  illustrated  by  De  Bry, 
and  printed  at  Frankfort,  Metz,  etc.,  1596 
and  later.  The  volume  containing  them 
belonged  to  Theodore  Parker;     [4153.12.] 


RARITIES    IN    BOOKS.  73 

Latin  Bible,  imperfect,  in  Gothic  letter, 
without  d?ite.  It  belonged  to  Theodore 
Parker.     [6010.7.] 

Epistles  of  Pope  Pius  IT,  bearing  date 
1477,  and  thought  to  have  been  printed  at 
Louvain.     In  the  Prince  Library.     [00.7.] 


Of  early  Spanish  typography  the  follow- 
ing may  be  mentioned :  — 

Cardinal  Ximenes's  Polyglott  Bible  in  six 
volumes,  printed  at  Alcala  de  Henares, 
1514-7.     [5440.1.] 

N^ote.  —  There  are  in  the  Ticknor  Library  many  early 
printed  books,  but  the  catalogue  being  not  more  than 
half  finished,  it  is  impracticable  to  give  even  a  tolerably 
full  account  of  the  rare  and  curious  books  in  the  collec- 
tion.   Among  them,  however,  are  the  following:  — 

St.  Isidore's  treatise  "  De  Summo  Bono,"  Venice,  1483, 
folio,  in  Gothic  characters.    (D. 231.5.) 

Aloneo  de  Palencia's  Latin  and  Spanish  Dictionary, 
Seville,  1490,  folio,  Gothic  characters.  In  the  original 
binding.    (D.231.4.) 


74  RARITIES    IN    BOOKS. 

Amadis  de  Gaula.    Venice,  1533,  fol.    (D.190,3.) 

Montemayor's  Diana  enamorada,  Valencia,  1542,  4*, 
without  the  name  of  the  printer.     (D.140b.39.) 

Montalvo'sEspIandian.  BurgoB.  1587.  fol.   (D.160a.74.) 

Cervantes'8  Don  Quixote,  First  Part,  Madrid,  1605.  4". 
The  fil-st  of  the  two  editions  printed  in  1605.  It  is  of 
great  rarity.     [V.  1  of  D.142.16.] 

Same.  6th  edition,  which  received  the  final  correc- 
tions of  the  author.  Madrid,  1608.  4".  It  is  of  extreme 
rarity.     [D.142.12.] 

Same.  Second  part,  first  edition.  Madrid,  1615.  4*. 
Two  lines  in  chapter  36  have  been  carefully  cancelled, 
in  compliance  with  the  directions  given  in  the  Index 
Expurgatorius  of  1667.     [V.  2  of  D.142.16.] 

Mariana's  ''Tractatus  VII  "  Cologne,  1609,  fol.,  muti- 
lated according  to  the  minute  directions  given  in  the 
Index  Expurgatorius  of  1667.     [D. 272.9.] 

The  pseudo  "  Second  Volume  of  Don  Quixote."  by 
Avellaueda  (a  fictitious  name).  First  edition,  Tarra- 
gona, 1614.  120.  One  of  the  rarest  of  Spanish  books. 
[D.145.6.] 

Lope  de  Vega's  Filis.  Madrid,  1635.  Sm.  S*.  Very 
rare  and  curious.     [D. 149.10.] 

Hita's  History  of  the  Civil  "Wars  of  Granada.  Vol.  1, 
Madrid,  1731;  vol.  2,  Barcelona,  1757.  ''Few  books  are 
so  rare  as  this.  I  thought  myself  quite  fortunate  to  get 
a  decent  copy,  though  the  two  volumes  are  of  differant 
editions."  —  Ms.  jwte  by  MR.  Ticknor.     [D.127.ap.] 

Barbosa    Machado'a    Bibliotheca    Lusitania,   Lisbon. 


RARITIES    IN   BOOKS.  75 

1741-59.  4  V.  folio.  Very  rare,  a  large  part  of  the  im- 
pression of  the  first  three  volumes  having  been  destroyed 
in  the  fire  that  followed  the  great  earthquake  at  Lisbon* 
in  1755.     [D.190,9.] 

Of  French  typo^aphy,  —  The  works  of 
Vh'gil,  printed  at  Paris,  1500.     [4200.13.] 

The  Barton  Library  has  been  received 
so  recently  that  no  account  of  its  rarities 
can  be  fully  given  until  the  classifying  and 
cataloguing  have  been  at  least  planned. 
Meanwhile,  a  statement  of  its  riches  will 
be  found  in  Wynne's  "Private  Libraries  of 
New  York"  [2126.3],  showing  the  collec- 
tion as  it  existed  in  1860,  but  it  was  not 
materially  enlarged  during  the  remaining 
five  years  of  the  owner's  life.  Dr.  Wynne's 
account  received  the  revision  of  Mr.  Barton, 
and  it  appears  that  among  the  earliest 
printed  books,  the  collection  includes  Guide 
de  Columna's  Latin  history  of  the  destruc- 
tion of  Troy,  1486  ;  Thrwoez's  Latin  history 
of  the  kings  of  Hungary,  1488 ;  the  Augs- 


76  RARITIES   IN   BOOKS. 

bury  edition  of  the  Gesta  Romanorum,  in 
German,  1489;  and  the  Nuremberg  Chron- 
icle of  1493. 

Among  other  rare  books  may  be  named 
the  first  edition  of  Holinshed's  chronicles, 
two  volumes,  folio,  1577  ;  a  magnificent  set 
of  De  Bry,  1690-1634,  in  16  volumes  ;  Spen- 
ser's Daphnaida,  1591 ;  the  "Vinegar  Bible," 
1717,  and  many  of  the  original  quarto  issues 
of  old  English  and  French  plays,  etc. 

The  Shakespearian  part  of  the  collection, 
which  is  the  finest  in  America,  and  will  take 
rank  among  the  finest  in  Europe,  embraces 
about  2,000  volumes.  The  Public  Library 
before  this  accession  possessed  a  consid- 
erable Shakespearian  collection,  numbering 
564  volumes  in  the  Bates  Hall,  and  118  in 
the  Lower  Hall,  without  enumerating  what- 
ever may  be  properly  classed  in  this  depart- 
ment among  the  books  of  the  Bowditch, 
Parker  and  Ticknor  Libraries.  Much  which 
in  the  Barton  collection  is  classed  with  the 


RARITIES    IN    BOOKS.  77 

Shakespearian  part  under  the  seventh,  tenth, 
and  eleventh  heads  of  the  following  state- 
ment, is  not  included  in  the  above  enu- 
meration of  the  previous  possessions  of  the 
Public  Library.  Mr.  Barton  ceased  to  col- 
lect at  about  the  date  of  the  tercentenary 
celebration,  and  the  large  accessions  of  the 
Public  Library  from  the  literature  conse- 
quent upon  that  event,  supplement,  rather 
than  duplicate  the  Barton  Shakespeariana. 
Mr.  Barton  divided  this  part  of  his  library 
into  the  following  classes  :  — 

I.  Ancient  Quartos,  embracing  fifteen  to 
twenty  of  those  that  appeared,  1597-1622, 
previous  to  the  first  folio  edition,  with  many 
that  appeared  subsequently  during  the 
seventeenth   century. 

n.  Ancient  Folios,  collected  editions  of 
the  plays,  beginning  with  the  first  of  1623 
(of  which  the  copy  is  one  of  the  very  few 
that  are  absolutely  perfect,  and  has  also 
the  cancelled  leaves  in  "As  you  like  it"), 


78  RARITIES   IN   BOOKS. 

followed  by  the  second  of  1632 ;  the  third 
of  1663  (with  the  later  impression  of  1664), 
and  the  fourth  of  1685. 

III.  Modem  editions.  Beginning  with 
Rowe,  the  earliest  editor,  and  embracing 
all  of  distinctive  character,  down  to  Halli- 
well's  superb  folio  edition  in  16  volumes. 

IV.  Poems. 

V.  Doubtful  and  Spurious  jjlays. 

VI.  Alterations,  Parodies,  etc. 

VII.  Early  ivorks  making  mention  of 
Sliakespeare,  beginning  with  Spenser's 
Teares  of  the  Muses,  1591. 

Vin.  Professed  Shakesperiana.  These 
begin  with  the  close  of  the  seventeenth 
century,  and  include  all  lives,  commen- 
taries, etc.,  with  accounts  of  Stratford,  the 
Jubilees,  the  Ireland  forgeries,  etc. 

IX.  Translations  of  Shakespeare. 

X.  Oraphic  illustrations,  music,  etc.,  per- 
taining to  Shakespeare. 

XI.  Shakespearian  Sources.     Books  used 


RARITIES    IN   BOOKS.  79 

by  Shakespeare  as  the  sources  of  his  plots, 
and  those  to  which  he  has  reference,  or  from 
which  he  borrowed  incidents,  etc. 

XII.  Portraits,  auiograplis,  etc.,  of 
Shakespeare  and  of  Shakespearian  editors, 
commentators,  actors  and  the  like. 

The  Prince  Library  has  some  rare  speci- 
mens of  the  earliest  typographical  art  in 
British  America ;  and  other  books  of  pecu- 
liar interest  in  the  history  of  New  England, 
though  not  printed  in  America. 

The  Bay  Psalm  book,  which  was  printed 
at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  1640,  being  the  first 
600A:  printed  in  the  British  possessions,  "  The 
Freeman's  Oath,"  and  a  small  Almanac  alone 
preceding  it.  What  is  supposed  to  be  the 
original  draught  of  the  preface  to  this  book 
in  the  handwriting  of  one  of  the  editors, 
the  Reverend  Richard  Mather,  is  among  the 
Prince  MSS.,  "Ecclesiastical  Papers,  No. 
2."  Of  the  five  copies  originally  in  this  col- 
lection, but  two  remain.  [^Cabinet,  21,  14 
and  15.] 


80  MANUSCRIPTS. 

Eliot's  Indian  Bible,  first  edition,  printed 
at  Cambridge,  1663.     \_Cahinet,  21.4.] 

Same,  second  edition,  Cambridge,  1685. 
ICahineU  21.5.] 

Eliot's  Indian  Primer.  Boston,  1720.  In 
the  original  binding,  and  thought  in  that 
state  to  be  unique.     \_Cabinet,  25.21.] 

Capt.  John  Smith's  "  Description  of  New- 
England,"  London,  1616,  with  its  early 
map.  This  copy,  both  in  the  map  and  in 
the  leaf  containing  "The  old  names"  and 
•'  the  new,"  has  differences  from  most  copies 
which  have  been  preserved.  [Cabinet,  27, 
108.]  In  Veazie's  reprint  [4491.10],  which 
has  a  fac  simile  of  the  map,  it  is  stated  that 
this  map  is  the  only  impression  of  the  orig- 
inal state  of  the  plate  known  to  Mr.  Lenox 
and  to  Mr.  Deane. 

MANUSCRIPTS. 

An  old  MS.,  ascribed  to  Perrault,  entitled 
**De    institutione    religiosorum,"    is    sub- 


FINE    ARTS.  81 

scribed,  '*  Sub  anno  d^  MCCCLXXX."  It 
belonged  to  Theodore  Parker.     [B.  144.6.] 

A  List  of  the  MSS.  in  the  Prince  Library 
is  given  at  the  end  of  the  Prince  Catalogue. 
They  contain  autographs  associated  with 
the  early  history  of  New  England. 

The  Library  also  possesses  books  that  have 
the  annotations  and  autographs  of  famous 
persons,  like  the  1704  editions  of  Newton's 
Optics  [5275.6],  with  his  corrections  and 
additions. 

The  Ticknor  MSS.  are  mostly  copies; 
and  those  in  the  Bowditch  Library  are  the 
commonplace  books  of  its  founder. 

FINE  ARTS. 

In  Bates  Hall.  —  Two  original  portraits  of 
Franklin,  one  presented  in  1872  by  Gard- 
ner Brewer,  Esq.,  and  painted  by  Greuze  ; 
the  other,  presented  in  1858  by  Edward 
Brooks,  Esq.,  and  painted  by  Duplessis. 
They  were  both  painted  in  France. 


82  FINE   ARTS. 

A  marble  bust  of  Joshua  Bates,  of  the 
bouse  of  Baring  Brothers  &  Co.,  and  the 
principal  benefactor  of  the  Library,  who 
was  born  at  Weymouth,  Mass.,  in  1788,  and 
died  in  London,  in  1864,  copied  by  Noble 
from  one  by  Behnes,  and  presented  in  1866 
by  Mr.  Bates's  daughter,  Elizabeth  van  de 
Weyer,  who  also  gave  the  portrait  in  oil  of 
Mr.  Bates,  painted  by  Eddis,  which  hangs 
in  the  room  of  the  Superintendent. 

Bust  in  marble,  by  Martin  Milmore, 
of  George  Ticknor,  one  of  the  chief 
friends  of  the  Library,  and  long  one  of  its 
Trustees,  and  the  collector  of  the  "Tick- 
nor Library,"  bequeathed  by  him.  Pre- 
sented in  1868  by  several  gentlemen. 

Bust  in  plaster  of  Edmund  Burke,  given 
in  1872  by  J.  G.  Loring,  Esq. 

Belonging  to  the  Barton  Library  are  a 
plaster  cast  of  the  head  of  Shakespeare  on 
the  Stratford  monument,  and  a  statuette  of 
Richard  iii,  by  John  Rogers,  a  single  figure 


FINE    ARTS.  83 

of  an  intended  group,  never  completed, 
and  of  which  a  few  copies  only  were  made. 

Loicer  Hall  Delivery  Eoom.  —  Busts  in  plas- 
ter of  Washington  Irving,  by  Ball  Hughes, 
and  of  Elisha  Kane,  by  Peter  Reniers, 
presented  in  1869  by  Jonathan  French,  Esq. 

In  Reading  Room.  —  Plaster  model  of  the 
Monument  to  Columbus,  by  Count  Brig- 
noli  Sale,  at  Genoa,  presented  in  1861  by 
Alexander  Vatteraare. 

Fine  Arts  Room.  —  Painting  by  Copley  of 
"King  Charles  the  First  demanding  in 
the  House  of  Commons  the  five  impeached 
members,  16-41."  Presented  in  1859  by 
various  gentlemen. 

Portrait  by  Young  of  Edward  Everett, 
the  first  President  of  the  Trustees  ;  presented 
in  1870  by  various  gentlemen. 

Bust  in  marble  of  Edward  Everett,  by 
Thomas  Ball,  presented  in  1867  by  the  Com- 
mittee on  the  Everett  Statue. 

Bust  in  marble  of  John  Lathrop  Mot- 


84  FINE   ARTS. 

LEY,  by  R.  S.  Greenough,  presented  in  1867 
by  Thomas  B.  Curtis,  Esq. 

Statue  in  marble  of  the  Arcadian  Shep- 
herd Boy,  by  W.  W:  Story,  presented  in 
1858  by  various  gentlemen. 

Group  in  marble,  Holy  Family,  by  Tro- 
schel,  given,  1865,  by  Gardner  Brewer,  Esq. 

Statue  in  marble,  "Meditation,"  by  G. 
Albertoni,  1846,  bequeathed  by  Mrs.  Eliza 
Shimmin,  1873. 

Antique  bust  in  marble  of  an  Unknown 
Man,  which  belonged  to  the  late  Cardinal 
Tosti,  and  was  presented  in  1869  by  his 
kinsman,  Signor  Alessandro  Ceccarini. 

Silver  vase,  presented  to  Daniel  Web- 
ster, 1835,  and  given  1866,  to  the  Library 
by  various  gentlemen. 

Painting  in  oils.  View  of  the  Old  State 
House  in  State  street,  in  Nov.,  1832,  during 
a  fire  in  that  building,  painted  by  Salmon, 
presented,  1872,  by  John  G.  Loring,  Esq. 

The   Tosti   Engravings,    presented    in 


FINE    ARTS.  85 

1869  by  Thomas  G.  Appleton,  Esq.,  who 
purchased  the  collection  in  Rome.  The 
framed  prints,  over  600  in  number,  are  dis- 
played in  the  various  apartments  of  the 
Library.  About  5,100  prints  are  in  bound 
volumes,  and  several  hundred  more  are  in 
portfolios.  The  catalogues  of  them  have 
been  described.  There  are  also  lists  of 
the  framed  prints  arranged  numerically,  to 
be  had  for  temporary  use  on  application. 

The  previous  owner  of  this  collection, 
which,  at  the  time  of  its  purchase,  was  es- 
teemed the  finest  in  Rome,  was  the  Cardinal 
(Antonio)  Tosti,  who  died  March  23,  1866, 
aged  90.  He  resided  for  a  long  time  at 
Aventine.  In  1834,  he  was  made  treasurer 
of  the  pontifical  government,  a  post  which 
he  continued  to  hold  for  ten  years,  when  he 
resigned  it  into  the  hands  of  Gregory  XVI. 
He  is  regarded  as  founder  of  the  industrial 
and  artistic  school  in  the  Hospital  of  San 
Michele,  of  which   institution   he  was   di- 


86  ENGRAVINGS. 

rector  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  was 
buried  in  the  church  of  St.  Cecilia,  Traste- 
vere. 

Regarding  the  entire  collection,  it  maybe 
said  that  its  strength  lies  in  the  Italian 
school ;  and  its  groupings  are  rather  indica- 
tive of  the  taste  of  its  late  owner  than  sug- 
gestive of  any  systematic  growth,  its  devel- 
opment having  doubtless  been  controlled  in 
some  degree  by  his  opportunities.  As  pat- 
ron of  the  school  of  San  Michele,  in  Rome, 
he  stood  in  intimate  relations  with  two  of 
his  scholars,  who  gained  eminence  in  the  art 
of  engraving,  — Mercurj  and  Calamatta, — 
and  he  doubtless  had  their  assistance  in 
gathering,  whence  he  could,  specimens  of 
their  art,  while  ihej,  furthermore,  almost 
always  furnished  him  with  the  earliest  im- 
pressions of  their  numerous  works.  A  dis- 
tinctive feature  of  the  collection  is,  be^'ond 
doubt,  its  portraits.  Edelinck,  Drevet, 
Nanteuil,  and   Schmidt,  are  here  strongly 


ENGRAVINGS.  87 

represented.  The  earlier  Italian  masters 
will  not  be  found  to  be  well  represented. 
There  are  no  Marc  Antonios,  except  a  few 
of  his  fac-similes  of  Diirer.  Of  the  latter's 
wood-cuts  there  are  between  twenty  and 
thirty,  large  and  small.  There  is  little  or 
nothing  of  his  contemporaries  or  immedi- 
ate successors.  The  English  school  is  but 
slightly  represented ;  and  etchings,  beside  a 
volume  of  Salvator  Rosa's  and  a  few  of 
Rembrandt's,  are  not  numerous.  The  mod- 
ern French  school  from  Audran  to  Lelli  is 
i  well  set  forth. 


GIFTS 
of  Books  and  of  every  description  of  pamph- 
lets are  very  acceptable  ;  and  packages  will 
be  sent  for  if  word  is  left  with  the  Desk 
attendants.  Friends  at  a  distance  may 
send  by  Express  at  the  Library's  expense. 


88  CHRONOLOGY. 


CHKONOLOGY   OF  THE  LIBRARY. 

1841-1847.  Various  preliminary  movements  made  to- 
wards a  City  Library.  In  1843  and  1847,  books  were 
received  by  the  City,  from  the  City  of  Paris  through 
M.  Vattemare. 

1847.  A  Joint  Committee  of  the  City  Council  on  a  Library 
first  appointed.  The  Hon.  Josiah  Quincy,  Jr.,  while 
Mayor,  offered  to  give  $5,000  for  a  Public  Library,  on 
condition  that  the  citizens  should  add  $10,000.  Offer 
not  Efiet. 

1848.  March  12.  Act  of  the  State  Legislature,  author- 
izing the  City  of  Boston  to  establish  and  maintain  a 
Public  Library.    Accepted  by  the  Citj-  April  3. 

Unsuccessful  efforts  to  procure  a  union  with  the  Athe- 
naeutn  Library. 

1849.  The  Hon.  R.  C.  Winthrop,  J.  D.  W.  Williams, 
Esq.,  Hon.  S.  A.  Eliot,  Dr.  J.  Mason  Warren,  Dr.  J. 
B.  McMahon,  and  Ezra  Weston,  Esq.,  presented  books 
for  a  library. 

1850.  Aug.  5.  The  Hon.  John  P.  Bigelow,  while  Mayor, 
presented  $1,000,  which  was  funded. 

Aug.  7.  The  Hon.  Edward  Everett  presented  his  set  of 
Public  Documents  and  State  Papers  of  the  United 
States,  with  other  works,  numbering  upwards  of  1,000 
vols. 

1851.  The  City  possessed  2,000  volumes. 

1852.  May  13.    Edward  Capen  chosen  Librarian. 


CHRONOLOGY.  89 

I/ay  24.  First  Board  of  Trustees  constituted,  with  the 
Hon.  Edward  Everett,  President. 

Tune  28.    James  Brown,  Esq.,  gave  $500 ;  spent  for  books. 

Tuly  6.  The  preliminary  report  of  the  Trustees  made, 
drawn  by  Geo.  Tieknor,  Esq.,  and  the  President. 

Sept.  24.  Samuel  Appleton,  Esq.,  gave  $1,000 ;  spent  for 
books. 

tOct.  1.  Joshua  Bates,  Esq.,  of  London,  prompted  by 
the  perusal  of  the  report  of  July  6th,  offered  $50,000, 
which  was  subsequently  funded. 

Oct.  12.  The  first  Library  Ordinance  of  the  City  Coun- 
cil passed. 

1853.  Jfar.  5.  James  Nightingale,  Esq.,  gave  $100; 
spent  for  books. 

Jfar.  12.    A  new  act  of  the  Legislature  extending  the 

limit  of  expenditures. 
Apr.  14.      The  Hon.   Jonathan   Phillips    gave   $10,000; 

funded. 
Nov.  4.    N.  I.  Bowditch,  Esq.,  gave  the  value  of  $200. 
The  Library  contained  9,688  volumes'. 
Dec.  4.     J.   I.   Bowditch,  Esq.,  gave   $300;    spent  for 

books. 

1854.  Jfar.  20.     Reading  Room  opened  in  Mason  street. 
Mar/  2.    The  Library  opened  in  Mason  street. 

Aug.    The  Library  contained  16,221  volumes. 
2fov.  27.    Ordinance  appointing  Commissioners  to  erect 
a  building. 

1855.  Library  contained  22,617  volumes,  and  circulated 
81,281  volumes.  Mrs.  Sally  L  K.  Shepard  gave 
$1,000;  spent  for  books. 


90  CHRONOLOGY. 

Aug.    The  Library  contained  22,617  volumes. 

Sept.  6.  Mr.  Bates,  in  a  letter,  promised  a  further  dona- 
tion of  books. 

Sept.  17.  Corner-stone  of  the  present  Library  building 
laid. 

1856.  T.  G.  Appleton,  Esq.,  gave  a  valuable  copy  of 
Audubon's  ''Birds  of  America." 

Aug.    The  Library  contained  28,080  volumes. 

1857.  Act  of  18tb  March,  1853,  so  far  changed,  thatj 
there  was  no  enforced  limit  to  the  appropriations  of 
the  City  for  the  Library ;  and  an  additional  ordinance 
created  the  office  of  Superintendent.  Prof.  C.  C. 
Jewett  was  chosen  Superintendent. 

The  Library  contained  34.896  volumes. 

1858.  Jan.  1.  The  present  Library  building  dedicated. 
Cost,  with  land,  about  $365,000. 

Mr.  Bates's  gift  of  books  completed,  amounting  in  value 
to  $50,000. 

The  sons  of  the  late  Xath'l  Bowditch,  LL.  D.,  gave 
their  father's  libi"ary  of  2,550  volumes,  besides  manu- 
scripts. 

Began  to  receive  the  Specifications  of  the  English  Pa- 
tents from  the  British  Government. 

Aug.    The  Library  contained  70,851  volumes. 

Sept.  17.  The  Reading  Room  opened  in  the  present 
building. 

Dec.  20.  The  Lower  Hall  Library  opened,  with  the 
printed  index  to  the  books. 


CHRONOLOGY.  91 

1859.  Under  the  will  of  the  Hon.  Ahbot  Lawrence, 
$10,000  received  and  funded. 

The  Executors  of  Miss  Mary  P.  Townshend's  will  gave 

$4,000,  which  was  funded. 
Aug.    The  Library  contained  78,043  volumes. 

1860.  The  Rev.  Theo.  Parker's  Library,  11,061  volumes, 
received  under  his  will. 

Geo.  Ticknor,  Esq.,  gave  a  large  reference  collection  of 
Greek,  Latin  and  Italian  classics;  his  total  donations 
upwards  of  3,000  volumes. 

The  Library  contained  85,032  volumes,,  and  circulated 
151,020  volumea. 

1861.  A  further  sum  of  $20,000  received  under  the  will 
of  the  Hon.  Jonathan  Phillips,  and  funded. 

The  upper  Hall,  containing  over  74,000  volumes,  opened 
^      to  the  public;   and  its  first  printed  index  of  books 

published.    The  entire  Library  contained  97,386  vol- 
umes. 
1 1862.     Geo,  Ticknor,  Esq.,   gave  a  rare    collection  of 

books  relating  to  the  life  of  Moliere. 
Aug.    The  Library  contained  105.034  volumes. 
1863.    The  City  Council  modified  the  Ordinance  relating 

to  the  Public  Library. 
The  Trustees  of  the  Franklin  Club  gave  $1,000,  which 

was  funded. 
Aug.    The  Library  contained  110,563  volumes. 
.1864. ,  Aug.    The  Library  contained  116,934  volumes. 
Sept.  24.    Joshua  Bates,  Esq.,  died  at  London.     The 

Upper  Hall,  it  is  ordered,  Oct.  13,  shall  henceforth  be 

called  Bates  Hall. 


92  CHRONOLOGY. 

Oct.  18-  Mr.  Ticknor  gave  a  valuable  collection  of  Pro- 
ven9al  books. 

1865.  Jan.  17.  The  Hon.  Edward  Everett,  President  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees,  died ;  succeeded  by  Mr.  Ticknor. 

The  Library  contained  123.016  volumes,  and  circulated 

194,627  volumes. 
Mr.  J.  L.  Stoddart  gave  $100;  spent  in  books. 

1866.  The  ancient  Prince  Library,  bequeathed  by  the 
Rev.  Thos.  Prince,  1758,  to  the  deacons  of  the  Old 
South  Church,  containing  1,899  volumes,  received  on 
deposit. 

The  '•  Supplemental  Index  "  of  the  Bates^Hall  published. 
The  ledger  system  for  recording  loans  displaced  by  the 

slip  system. 
Mr.  Ticknor  resigned  the  presidency;    succeeded  by 

Wm.  W.  Greenough,  Esq. 
Aug.    The  Library  contained  130,678  volumes. 
Sept.    The  printing  of  Finding  Lists  for  the  Lower  Hall 

began. 
Dec.    A   new    Ordinance    reorganizing   the    Boarid    of 

Trustees. 
The  "  Indicator  "  placed  in  the  Lower  Hall. 
Aug.    The  Library  contained  136,080  volumes. 
Oct.    The  first  number  of  the  Library  Bulletin  issued. 
1868.    Jan.    Mr.  Jewett,  the  Superintendent,  died. 
Feb.  25.    Mr.  Justin  Winsor  chosen  Superintendent. 
Aug.    The  Library  contained  144,092  volumes. 
Nov.    "William  E.  Jillson,  the  Assistant  Superintendent, 

died.    Mr.  William  A.  Wheeler  was  appointed  in  his 

place. 


CHRONOLOGY.  93 


1869.  Annual  closing  of  the  Library  for  examination 
dispensed  with. 

A  new  Ordinance,  reorganizing  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
changing  the  beginning  of  the  Library  year  to  May  1st, 
and  authorizing  the  establisliment  of  branch  libraries. 

Bindery  opened  in  the  building. 

Aug.     The  Library  contained  152,796  volumes. 

1870.  J/ay.    The  Library  contained  160,573  volumes. 
iVor.  28.    The  Reading  Room  of  the  East  Boston  Branch 

Library  opened. 

1871.  Jan.  27.  Delivery  of  books  began  at  the  East 
Boston  Library.  The  Catalogue  was  issued,  Mar.  3d, 
and  the  formal  dedication  took  place  Jfar.  22d. 

Apr.    The  Spanish  and  Portuguese  Library,  collected  by 

George  Ticknor,  and  bequeathed  by  him,  was  received 

at  the  Library,  numbering  nearly  4,000  volumes.    Mr. 

Ticknor  died  Jan.  26, 1871.    He  also  bequeathed  $4,000 

as  a  fund,  the  income  from  which  is  to  be  devoted  to 

the  increase  of  this  special  collection. 
May.    The  Bates  Hall  contained  135,786  volumes;  the 

Lower  Hall  30,574  volumes;  the  East  Boston  Branch, 

5,936  volumes,  —  total,  179,250  volumes. 
Sept.    Alterations  begxm  in  the  Bates  Hall,  by  which 

the  lateral  alcoves  are  subdivided  and  lighted,  and 

completed  in  1872. 
Oct.     A  printed  Card  Catalogue    of  the    Bates    Hall 

established. 

1872.  An  agreement  made  with  the  Trustees  of  the 
Fellowes  Athenaeum,  securing  their  co-operation  in 


94  CHRONOLOGY. 


the  founding  of  a  Branch  Library  at  Roxhury,  and  a 
building  for  the  use  of  it  begun. 

May  18.  The  South  Boston  Branch  Library  opened 
with  nearly  4,400  volumes,  the  Reading  Room  at- 
tached having  been  opened  Apr.  22d,  and  the  Branch 
was  formally  dedicated  Marj  16th. 

The  Bates  Hall  contained  142.685  volumes;  the  Lower 
Hall,  31,827  volumes;  the  East  Boston  Branch,  6,767 
volumes;  the  South  Boston  Branch,  4.365  volumes; 
the  Duplicate  Room,  7,314  volumes;  total,  192,958  vol- 
umes; besides  100,000  pamphlets. 

June.  The  City  Council  appropriated  $70,000  for  the 
purchase  of  the  Richardson  estate,  adjacent  to  the 
Central  Library  on  the  east. 

Dec.    Changes  in  the  Lower  Hall  Library  completed. 

1873.  May.  The  Barton  Library,  purchased  in  New 
York,  received.     It  numbers  not  far  from  12,000  vols. 

June.  Additional  precautions  taken  to  render  the  roof 
of  the  Boylston-street  building  safe  against  fire. 

The  Bates  Hall  contained  150.255  volumes;  the  Lower 
Hall,  32,756  volumes;  the  East  Boston  Branch,  7,338 
volumes;  the  South  Boston  Branch,  5,241  volumes; 
the  Roxbury  Branch  (not  yet  opened),  4,846  volumes; 
the  Newspaper  Room,  2,163  volumes;  the  Duplicate 
Room,  8,194  volumes;  total,  210,793  volumes  (not 
including  the  Barton  Library). 

The  Roxbury  Branch  Reading  Room  opened  June  23d; 
the  building  dedicated,  July  9th  ;  the  Library  opened, 
July  16th,  with  5,000  volmnes. 


CAUTIONS,  ETC.  95 


CAUTIONS,   ETC. 


*^*  Prompt  notice  of  change  of  resi- 
dence must  be  given.  [See  Article  X.] 
Holders  of  cards  must  surrender  them  when 
they  cease  to  be  residents.  Other  non-resi- 
dents must  do  so  when  the  reasons  for  which 
Cards  were  given  no  longer  exist,  and  they 
are  expected  not  to  give  occasion  for  the 
sending  of  Delinquent  Notices. 

*^*  Borrowers  finding  any  book  or  peri- 
odical mutilated  or  unwarrantably  defaced, 
are  expected  to  report  it.  (See  Laws  of  the 
Commofiwealth  on  page  16.) 

Writing  on  books,  even  for  mere  correc- 
tions of  the  press,  is  unconditionally 
FORBIDDEN.      See  the  law  in  Article  XV. 

*^*  Xo  claim  can  be  established  because 
of  the  failure  of  any  notice,  to  or  from  the 
Library,  through  the  mail. 


96  CAUTIONS,    ETC. 

*l,*  Talking  to  attendants,  except  on  mat- 
ters pertaining  to  the  Library,  is  strictly 
prohibited ;  and  gentlemen  will  remain 
uncovered  .while  in  the  building.  [See 
Article  XVIIL] 

*^*  There  is  no  admittance  within  the 
rails  without  permission.  [See  Article 
XVII.] 

*^*  Headers  loill  confer  a  favor  by  reporting 
to  the  Superintendent  any  undue  delay  in  the 
getting  of  books.  An  apparent  delay  may 
occur,  if  they  are  not  careful,  in  the  Lower 
Hall  and  at  the  Branches,  to  listen  for  the 
first  calling  of  their  names,  and  in  the  Bates 
Hall  to  watch  at  the  Desk  for  the  return  of 
the  runner. 

Any  suggestions,  made  in  writing,  may  be 
addressed  to  the  Superintendent. 


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REGULATIONS. 


SECOJiJD    EDITION,    JULY,     1873. 

BOSTON: 

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122  Washington  Street. 

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